1 T'is true, t'is day, what though it be ?, And will you therefore rise from me ? What will you rise because tis light ? Did we lye downe because twas night ? Loue that in spight of darknesse brought vs hether, In spight of light should keepe vs still together. |
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2 Light hath no tongue, but is all Eye, If it could speake as well as spye, This were the worst that I could say, That being well I faine would stay. And that I loue my hart and honor so That I would not from him that hath them goe. |
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3 Ist businesse that doth you remoue ? Oh, that's the worst disease of Loue, The poore, the foule, the false, loue can Admit, but not the busied man : He that hath businesse, and makes loue doth doe, Such wrong as if a marryed man should woe. |
John Donne: 'Break of Day' [Another of the same]
(Songs and Sonnets, 1633)
Anniina Jokinen's John Donne page
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