StoryTitle("caps", "Complaint~of~the~Absence of~Her~Lover Being~upon~the~Sea") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O happy dames! that may embrace ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The fruit of your delight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Help to bewail the woful case ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And eke the heavy plight ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of me, that wonted to rejoice ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fortune of my pleasant choice: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good ladies, help to fill my mourning voice. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In ship, freight with rememberance ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of thoughts and pleasures past, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He sails that hath in governance", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My life while it will last: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With scalding sighs, for lack of gale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Furthering his hope, that is his sail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toward me, the swete port of his avail. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas! how oft in dreams I see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Those eyes that were my food; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which sometime so delighted me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That yet they do me good: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wherewith I wake with his return ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose absent flame did make me burn:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when I find the lack, Lord! how I mourn! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When other lovers in arms across ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rejoice their chief delight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Drownéd in tears, to mourn my loss ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I stand the bitter night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In my window where I may see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Before the winds how the clouds flee: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lo! what a mariner love hath made me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in green waves when the salt flood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Doth rise by rage of wind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A thousand fancies in that mood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Assail my restless mind. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas! now drencheth my sweet foe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That with the spoil of my heart did go, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And left me; but alas! why did he so?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when the seas wax calm again ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To chase fro me annoy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My doubtful hope doth cause me plain; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So dread cuts off my joy. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus is my wealth mingled with woe", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And of each thought a doubt doth grow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—Now he comes! Will he come? Alas! no, no.", "") ?>
Poet("Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey", "1516-1547") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>