StoryTitle("caps", "Wishes to His Supposed Mistress ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whoe'er she be—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That not impossible She", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That shall command my heart and me:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where'er she lie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lock'd up from mortal eye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In shady leaves of destiny:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till that ripe birth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of studied Fate stand forth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And teach her fair steps to our earth:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till that divine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Idea take a shrine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of crystal flesh, through which to shine:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Meet you her, my Wishes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bespeak her to my blisses,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And be ye call'd my absent kisses. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wish her Beauty,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That owes not all its duty", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To gaudy tire, or glist'ring shoe-tie:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Something more than", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Taffata or tissue can, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or rampant feather, or rich fan.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Face, that's best", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By its own beauty drest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And can alone commend the rest.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Face, made up ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out of no other shop", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than what Nature's white hand sets ope.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Cheek, where youth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And blood, with pen of truth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Write what the reader sweetly ru'th. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Cheek, where grows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "More than a morning rose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which to no box his being owes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lips, where all day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A lover's kiss may play, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet carry nothing thence away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Looks, that oppress", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their richest tires, but dress", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And clothe their simplest nakedness.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Eyes, that displace ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The neighbour diamond, and outface", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That sunshine by their own sweet grace.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tresses, that wear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jewels but to declare", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How much themselves more precious are: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose native ray", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can tame the wanton day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of gems that in their bright shades play.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each ruby there,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or pearl that dare appear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be its own blush, be its own tear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A well-tamed Heart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For whose more noble smart", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love may be long choosing a dart.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Eyes, that bestow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Full quivers on love's bow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet pay less arrows than they owe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Smiles, that can warm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The blood, yet teach a charm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That chastity shall take no harm. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blushes, that bin", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The burnish of no sin,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor flames of aught too hot within.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Joys, that confess", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Virtue their mistress, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And have no other head to dress.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fears, fond and slight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As the coy bride's, when night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "First does the longing lover right.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Days, that need borrow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No part of their good-morrow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From a fore-spent night of sorrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Days, that in spite", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of darkness, by the light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of a clear mind, are day all night. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nights, sweet as they,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made short by lovers' play,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet long by th' absence of the day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Life, that dares send", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A challenge to his end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when it comes, say, \"Welcome, friend!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sydneian showers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of sweet discourse, whose powers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can crown old Winter's head with flowers.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soft silken hours, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Open suns, shady bowers;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Bove all, nothing within that lowers.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whate'er delight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can make Day's forehead bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or give down to the wings of Night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wish her store", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of worth may leave her poor", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of wishes; and I wish—no more.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now, if Time knows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That Her, whose radiant brows ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Weave them a garland of my vows;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her, whose just bays", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My future hopes can raise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A trophy to her present praise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her, that dares be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What these lines wish to see;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I seek no further, it is She.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis She, and here,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lo! I unclothe and clear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My Wishes' cloudy character.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May she enjoy it", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose merit dare apply it,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But modesty dares still deny it!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such worth as this is", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall fix my flying Wishes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And determine them to kisses.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let her full glory,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My fancies, fly before ye;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be ye my fictions—but her story.", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Crashaw", "1613?–1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>