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PARTING, CELIA WEEPS by THOMAS CAREW

Poet Analysis

First Line: WEEP NOT, MY DEAR, FOR I SHALL GO
Last Line: THOU WERT THUS LOTH TO PART WITH ME.
Subject(s): FAREWELL; GRIEF; PARTING;
WEEP not, my dear, for I shall go
Loaden enough with mine own woe;
Add not thy heaviness to mine;
Since fate our pleasures must disjoin,
Why should our sorrows meet? If I
Must go, and lose thy company,
I wish not theirs: it shall relieve
My grief, to think thou dost not grieve.
Yet grieve, and weep, that I may bear
Every sigh and every tear
Away with me; so shall thy breast
And eyes, discharg'd, enjoy their rest;
And it will glad my heart to see
Thou wert thus loth to part with me.



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