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LOVE'S SOLICITUDE by PIERRE DE RONSARD

First Line: WHERE ART THOU AT THIS MOMENT, LOVE? - WHAT DOING
Last Line: LIGHT OF MINE EYES, BLOOD OF MY VEINS, MY LOVE.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; EYES; HEARTS; LOVE; PAIN; SUFFERING; MISERY;

WHERE art thou at this moment, love? -- what doing,
What saying, thinking? -- Dost thou think of me?
Hast thou no care for my hard agony,
Though care for thee still houndeth me, renewing

My pain, and all my heart with love subduing? --
Absent, I hear thee speak, and speak to thee.
Thy form so present in my mind I see,
No thought can harbor there of other wooing.

I hold thine eyes, thy beauty, and thy grace
Engraven on my heart -- and every place
Where e'er I saw thee dance, laugh, speak, or move.

I hold thee mine, though I am not mine own;
I live and breathe in thee, in thee alone,
Light of mine eyes, blood of my veins, my love.



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