StoryTitle("caps", "The Blossom") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a day—alack the day!—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love, whose month is ever May, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spied a blossom passing fair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Playing in the wanton air:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the velvet leaves the wind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All unseen can passage find;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That the lover, sick to death,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Air, would I might triumph so!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, alack, my hand is sworn", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Vow, alack, for youth unmeet; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Youth so apt to pluck a sweet!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do not call it sin in me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That I am forsworn for thee;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou for whom Jove would swear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Juno but an Ethiop were;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And deny himself for Jove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Turning mortal for thy love.", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>