| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Humility | | By Richard Brome (d. 1652?) |
| | | NOR 1 Love nor Fate dare I accuse | |
| For that my love did me refuse, | |
| But O! mine own unworthiness | |
| That durst presume so mickle bliss. | |
| It was too much for me to love | 5 |
| A man so like the gods above: | |
| An angel’s shape, a saint-like voice, | |
| Are too divine for human choice. | |
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| O had I wisely given my heart | |
| For to have loved him but in part; | 10 |
| Sought only to enjoy his face, | |
| Or any one peculiar grace | |
| Of foot, of hand, of lip, or eye,— | |
| I might have lived where now I die: | |
| But I, presuming all to choose, | 15 |
| Am now condemnèd all to lose. | |
| | | Note 1. From The Northern Lass, act ii, sc. 6, 1632. [back] | | |
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