StoryTitle("caps", "Phillis II") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love guards the roses of thy lips", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And flies about them like a bee;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If I approach he forward skips,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And if I kiss he stingeth me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love in thine eyes doth build his bower,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sleeps within their pretty shine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if I look the boy will lower,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And from their orbs shoot shafts divine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love works thy heart within his fire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And in my tears doth firm the same;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if I tempt it will retire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And of my plaints doth make a game.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love, let me cull her choicest flowers;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And pity me, and calm her eye;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make soft her heart, dissolve her lowers;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then will I praise thy deity.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if thou do not, Love, I'll truly serve her", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In spite of thee, and by firm faith deserve her.", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Lodge", "1556?-1625") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>