| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Forsake Thyself, to Heaven Turn Thee | | By Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628) |
| | | THE EARTH, with thunder torn, with fire blasted, | |
| With waters drowned, with windy palsy shaken, | |
| Cannot for this with heaven be distasted, | |
| Since thunder, rain, and winds from earth are taken. | |
| Man, torn with love, with inward furies blasted, | 5 |
| Drowned with despair, with fleshly lustings shaken, | |
| Cannot for this with heaven be distasted: | |
| Love, fury, lustings out of man are taken. | |
| Then man, endure thyself, those clouds will vanish. | |
| Life is a top which whipping Sorrow driveth, | 10 |
| Wisdom must bear what our flesh cannot banish, | |
| The humble lead, the stubborn bootless striveth: | |
| Or, man, forsake thyself, to heaven turn thee, | |
| Her flames enlighten nature, never burn thee. | | | | |
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