StoryTitle("caps", "Wooing Song ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love is the blossom where there blows ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every thing that lives or grows: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love doth make the Heav'ns to move, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Sun doth burn in love: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love the strong and weak doth yoke, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And makes the ivy climb the oak, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under whose shadows lions wild, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soften'd by love, grow tame and mild: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love no med'cine can appease, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He burns the fishes in the seas: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not all the skill his wounds can stench, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not all the sea his fire can quench. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love did make the bloody spear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once a leavy coat to wear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While in his leaves there shrouded lay ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet birds, for love that sing and play ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And of all love's joyful flame ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I the bud and blossom am. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Only bend thy knee to me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy wooing shall thy winning be! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See, see the flowers that below ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now as fresh as morning blow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And of all the virgin rose ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That as bright Aurora shows; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How they all unleavéd die, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Losing their virginity! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like unto a summer shade, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now born, and now they fade. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every thing doth pass away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There is danger in delay: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, come, gather then the rose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gather it, or it you lose! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the sand of Tagus' shore ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into my bosom casts his ore: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the valleys' swimming corn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To my house is yearly borne: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every grape of every vine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is gladly bruised to make me wine: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While ten thousand kings, as proud, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To carry up my train have bow'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a world of ladies send me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In my chambers to attend me: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the stars in Heav'n that shine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ten thousand more, are mine: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Only bend thy knee to me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy wooing shall thy winning be!", "") ?>
Poet("Giles Fletcher", "c. 1585 - 1623") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>