StoryTitle("caps", "Icarus") ?>
From Robert Jones's Second Book of Songs or Airs (1601)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love wing'd my Hopes and taught me how to fly", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far from base earth, but not to mount too high:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For true pleasure", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Lives in measure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Which if men forsake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blinded they into folly run and grief for pleasure take.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But my vain Hopes, proud of their new-taught flight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enamour'd sought to woo the sun's fair light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whose rich brightness", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Moved their lightness", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To aspire so high", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all scorch'd and consumed with fire now drown'd in woe they lie.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And none but Love their woeful hap did rue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Love did know that their desires were true;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Though fate frownéd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And now drownéd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "They in sorrow dwell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was the purest light of heav'n for whose fair love they fell.", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>