Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 1 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 1 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind

From Thomas Ford's Music of Sundry Kinds  (1607)

There is a Lady sweet and kind,

Was never face so pleased my mind;

I did but see her passing by,

And yet I love her till I die.

Her gesture, motion, and her smiles,

Her wit, her voice my heart beguiles,

Beguiles my heart, I know not why,

And yet I love her till I die.

Cupid is wingéd and doth range,

Her country so my love doth change:

But change she earth, or change she sky,

Yet will I love her till I die.

— Anonymous


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