StoryTitle("caps", "From Daphnaida") ?>
An Elegy
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She fell away in her first ages spring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whil'st yet her leafe was greene, and fresh her rinde,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And whil'st her braunch faire blossomes foorth did bring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She fell away against all course of kinde.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For age to dye is right, but youth is wrong;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She fel away like fruit blowne downe with winde.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Weepe, Shepheard! weepe, to make my undersong.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet fell she not as one enforst to dye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne dyde with dread and grudging discontent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But as one toyld with travaile downe doth lye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So lay she downe, as if to sleepe she went,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And closde her eyes with carelesse quietnesse;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The whiles soft death away her spirit hent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And soule assoyld from sinfull fleshlinesse.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How happie was I when I saw her leade", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Shepheards daughters dauncing in a rownd!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How trimly would she trace and softly tread", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tender grasse, with rosie garland crownd!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when she list advance her heavenly voyce,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Both Nymphes and Muses nigh she made astownd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And flocks and shepheards causéd to rejoyce.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now, ye Shepheard lasses! who shall lead", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your wandring troupes, or sing your virelayes?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or who shall dight your bowres, sith she is dead", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That was the Lady of your holy-dayes?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let now your blisse be turnéd into bale,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And into plaints convert your joyous playes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with the same fill every hill and dale.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I will walke this wandring pilgrimage,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Throughout the world from one to other end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in affliction wast my better age:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My bread shall be the anguish of my mind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My drink the teares which fro mine eyed do raine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My bed the ground that hardest I may finde;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So will I wilfully increase my paine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne sleepe (the harbenger of wearie wights)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall ever lodge upon mine ey-lids more;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne shall with rest refresh my fainting sprights,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor failing force to former strength restore:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I will wake and sorrow all the night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Philumene, my fortune to deplore;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Philumene, the partner of my plight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ever as I see the starres to fall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And under ground to goe to give them light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which dwell in darknes, I to minde will call", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How my fair Starre (that shinde on me so bright)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fell sodainly and faded under ground;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since whose departure, day is turnd to night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And night without a Venus starre is found.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she, my love that was, my Saint that is,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she beholds from her celestiall throne", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(In which shee joyeth in eternall blis)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My bitter penance, will my case bemone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And pitie me that living thus doo die;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For heavenly spirits have compassion", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On mortall men, and rue their miserie.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So when I have with sorowe satisfide", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Th' importune fates, which vengeance on me seeke,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And th' heavens with long languor pacifide,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She, for pure pitie of my sufferance meeke,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will send for me; for which I daylie long:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And will till then my painful penance eeke.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Weep, Shepheard! weep, to make my undersong!", "") ?>
Poet("Edmund Spenser", "1552-1599") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>