Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INCONSTANCY EXCUSED, by JOHN SHEFFIELD


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First Line: I must confess I am untrue
Last Line: I sigh my soul away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


I MUST confess I am untrue
To Gloriana's eyes;
But he that's smil'd upon by you,
Must all the world despise.

In winter, fires of little worth
Excite our dull desire;
But when the sun breaks kindly forth,
Those fainter flames expire.

Then blame me not for slighting now
What I did once adore;
O, do but this one change allow,
And I can change no more:

Fixt by your never failing charms,
Till I with age decay,
Till languishing within your arms,
I sigh my soul away.





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