StoryTitle("caps", "When, Dearest, I But Think of Thee ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, dearest, I but think of thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Methinks all things that lovely be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are present, and my soul delighted: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For beauties that from worth arise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are like the grace of deities,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Still present with us, tho' unsighted. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus while I sit and sigh the day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With all his borrow'd lights away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till night's black wings do overtake me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As sudden lights do sleepy men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So they by their bright rays awake me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus absence dies, and dying proves ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No absence can subsist with loves ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That do partake of fair perfection:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since in the darkest night they may ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By love's quick motion find a way ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To see each other by reflection. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The waving sea can with each flood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bathe some high promont that hath stood", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Far from the main up in the river: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O think not then but love can do ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As much! for that's an ocean too, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which flows not every day, but ever!", "") ?>
Poet("Sir John Suckling", "1609–1642") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>