StoryTitle("caps", "To His Forsaken Mistress") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I might have gone near to love thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had I not found the slightest prayer ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That lips could move, had power to move thee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I can let thee now alone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As worthy to be loved by none. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I do confess thou'rt sweet; yet find ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy favours are but like the wind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That kisseth everything it meets:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And since thou canst with more than one, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou'rt worthy to be kiss'd by none. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The morning rose that untouch'd stands ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Arm'd with her briers, how sweet she smells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But pluck'd and strain'd through ruder hands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her sweets no longer with her dwells: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But scent and beauty both are gone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And leaves fall from her, one by one. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such fate ere long will thee betide ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When thou hast handled been awhile,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sere flowers to be thrown aside; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I shall sigh, while some will smile, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To see thy love to every one ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hath brought thee to be loved by none.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Robert Ayton", "1570-1638") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>