StoryTitle("caps", "To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If to be absent were to be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Away from thee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Or that when I am gone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "You or I were alone; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then, my Lucasta, might I crave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pity from blustering wind or swallowing wave. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But I'll not sigh one blast or gale ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "To swell my sail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Or pay a tear to 'suage ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The foaming blue god's rage;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For whether he will let me pass ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or no, I'm still as happy as I was. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though seas and land betwixt us both, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Our faith and troth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Like separated souls, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "All time and space controls: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Above the highest sphere we meet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unseen, unknown; and greet as Angels greet. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So then we do anticipate ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Our after-fate,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And are alive i' the skies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "If thus our lips and eyes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Can speak like spirits unconfined ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Heaven, their earthy bodies left behind", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Lovelace", "1618–1658") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>