StoryTitle("caps", "My~Lady's~Tears") ?>
From John Dowland's Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs (1603)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I saw my Lady weep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Sorrow proud to be advancéd so", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In those fair eyes where all perfections keep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her face was full of woe;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But such a woe (believe me) as wins more hearts", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than Mirth can do with her enticing parts.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sorrow was there made fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Passion wise; Tears a delightful thing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Silence beyond all speech, a wisdom rare:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She made her sighs to sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all things with so sweet a sadness move", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As made my heart at once both grieve and love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O fairer than aught else", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world can show, leave off in time to grieve!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enough, enough: your joyful look excels:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tears kill the heart, believe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O strive not to be excellent in woe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which only breeds your beauty's overthrow.", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>