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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
On a day (alacke the day)
Love whose month was ever May, Spied a blossome passing faire, Playing in the wanton ayre; Through the velvet leaves the wind All unseene gan passage find, That the lover (sicke to death) Wisht himselfe the heavens breath, Ayre (quoth he) thy cheeks may blow, Ayre, would I might triumph so: But (alas) my hand hath sworne, Nere to plucke thee from thy throne, Vow (alacke) for youth unmeet, Youth, so apt to pluck a sweet, Thou for whom Iove would sweare, Iuno but an Ethiope were, And deny himselfe for Iove Turning mortall for thy Love.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600]. |
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