| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | No More unto My Thoughts Appear | | By Sidney Godolphin (1610–1643) |
| | | NO more unto my thoughts appear, | |
| At least appear less fair, | |
| For crazy tempers justly fear | |
| The goodness of the air. | |
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| Whilst your pure image hath a place | 5 |
| In my impurer mind, | |
| Your very shadow is the glass | |
| Where my defects I find. | |
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| Shall I not fly that brighter light | |
| Which makes my fires look pale, | 10 |
| And put that virtue out of sight | |
| Which makes mine none at all? | |
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| No, no, your picture doth impart | |
| Such value, I not wish | |
| The native worth to any heart | 15 |
| That’s unadorned with this. | |
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| Though poorer in desert I make | |
| Myself, whilst I admire, | |
| The fuel which from Hope I take | |
| I give to my Desire. | 20 |
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| If this flame lighted from your eyes | |
| The subject do calcine, | |
| A heart may be your sacrifice | |
| Too weak to be your shrine. | | | | |
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