| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
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| Sidney Godolphin |
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| 39. Song |
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| NOE more unto my thoughts appeare, | |
| Att least appeare lesse fayre, | |
| For crazy tempers justly feare | |
| The goodnesse of the ayre; | |
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| Whilst your pure Image hath a place | 5 |
| In my impurer Mynde, | |
| Your very shaddow is the glasse | |
| Where my defects I finde. | |
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| Shall I not fly that brighter light | |
| Which makes my fyres looke pale, | 10 |
| And put that vertue out of sight | |
| Which makes myne none att all? | |
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| No, no, your picture doeth impart | |
| Such valew I not wish | |
| The native worth to any heart | 15 |
| That 's unadorn'd with this. | |
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| Though poorer in desert I make | |
| My selfe whilst I admyre, | |
| The fuell which from hope I take | |
| I give to my desire. | 20 |
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| If this flame lighted from your Eyes | |
| The subject doe calcine, | |
| A Heart may bee your sacrifice | |
| Too weake to bee your shrine. | |
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