StoryTitle("caps", "To Her~Sea‑Faring~Lover") ?>
From Tottel's Miscellany (1557)
PoemStart() ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall I thus ever long, and be no whit the neare?", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "And shall I still complain to thee, the which me will not hear?", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "Alas! say nay! say nay! and be no more so dumb,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "But open thou thy manly mouth and say that thou wilt come:", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "Whereby my heart may think, although I see not thee,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "That thou wilt come—thy word so sware—if thou a live man be.", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "The roaring hugy waves they threaten my poor ghost,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And toss thee up and down the seas in danger to be lost.", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall they not make me fear that they have swallowed thee?", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "—But as thou art most sure alive, so wilt thou come to me.", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "Whereby I shall go see thy ship ride on the strand,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And think and say Lo where he comes and Sure here will he land:", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "And then I shall lift up to thee my little hand,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou shalt think thine heart in ease, in health to see me stand.", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "And if thou come indeed (as Christ thee send to do!)", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Those arms which miss thee now shall then embrace [and hold] thee too:", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "Each vein to every joint the lively blood shall spread", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Which now for want of thy glad sight doth show full pale and dead.", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "But if thou slip thy troth, and do not come at all,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "As minutes in the clock do strike so call for death I shall:", "") ?> PoemLine("L2", "", "To please both thy false heart and rid myself from woe,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "That rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so!", "") ?> Poet("Anonymous", "") ?> PoemEnd() ?>