StoryTitle("caps", "Fawnia") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! were she pitiful as she is fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or but as mild as she is seeming so,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then were my hopes greater than my despair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! were her heart relenting as her hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That seems to melt even with the mildest touch,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then knew I where to seat me in a land", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under wide heavens, but yet there is not such.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So as she shows she seems the budding rose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet sweeter far than is an earthly flower;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sovran of beauty, like the spray she grows;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd flower.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yet were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! when she sings, all music else be still,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For none must be comparéd to her note;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne'er breathed such glee from Philomela's bill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor from the morning-singer's swelling throat.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! when she riseth from her blissful bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She comforts all the world as doth the sun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And at her sight the night's foul vapour's fled;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she is set the gladsome day is done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O glorious sun, imagine me the west,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shine in my arms, and set thou in my breast!", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Greene", "1560-1592") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>