StoryTitle("caps", "To His Coy~Love") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I pray thee, leave, love me no more,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Call home the heart you gave me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I but in vain that saint adore", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That can but will not save me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These poor half-kisses kill me quite—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was ever man thus servéd?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Amidst an ocean of delight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For pleasure to be starvéd?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Show me no more those snowy breasts", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With azure riverets branchéd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where, whilst mine eye with plenty feasts,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yet is my thirst not stanchéd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Tantalus, thy pains ne'er tell!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By me thou art prevented:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis nothing to be plagued in Hell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But thus in Heaven tormented—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clip me no more in those dear arms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor thy life's comfort call me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O these are but too powerful charms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And do but more enthral me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But see how patient I am grown", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In all this coil about thee:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, nice thing, let my heart alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I cannot live without thee!", "") ?>
Poet("Michael Drayton", "1563-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>