StoryTitle("caps", "To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forbear, bold youth; all's heaven here,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And what you do aver", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To others courtship may appear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Tis sacrilege to her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is a public deity;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And were't not very odd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She should dispose herself to be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A petty household god?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "First make the sun in private shine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bid the world adieu,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That so he may his beams confine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In compliment to you:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if of that you do despair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Think how you did amiss", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To strive to fix her beams which are", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "More bright and large than his.", "") ?>
Poet("Katherine Philips (Orinda)", "1631–1664") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>