| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–47). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | The forsaken Lover describeth and forsaketh Love |
| | | O LOATHSOME place! where I | |
| Have seen, and heard my dear; | |
| When in my heart her eye | |
| Hath made her thought appear, | |
| By glimpsing with such grace,— | 5 |
| As fortune it ne would | |
| That lasten any space, | |
| Between us longer should. | |
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| As fortune did advance | |
| To further my desire; | 10 |
| Even so hath fortune’s chance | |
| Thrown all amidst the mire. | |
| And that I have deserved, | |
| With true and faithful heart, | |
| Is to his hands reserved, | 15 |
| That never felt the smart. | |
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| But happy is that man | |
| That scaped hath the grief, | |
| That love well teach him can, | |
| By wanting his relief. | 20 |
| A scourge to quiet minds | |
| It is, who taketh heed; | |
| A common plage that hinds; | |
| A travail without meed. | |
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| This gift it hath also: | 25 |
| Whoso enjoys it most, | |
| A thousand troubles grow, | |
| To vex his wearied ghost. | |
| And last it may not long; | |
| The truest thing of all: | 30 |
| And sure the greatest wrong, | |
| That is within this thrall. | |
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| But since thou, desert place, | |
| Canst give me no account | |
| Of my desired grace, | 35 |
| That I to have was wont; | |
| Farewell! thou hast me taught, | |
| To think me not the first | |
| That love hath set aloft, | |
| And casten in the dust. | 40 | | | |
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