Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VI. Lovers | | “My sweet sweeting” | | Anonymous |
| | From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII.
AH, my sweet sweeting; | |
| My little pretty sweeting, | |
| My sweeting will I love wherever I go; | |
| She is so proper and pure, | |
| Full, steadfast, stable, and demure, | 5 |
| There is none such, you may be sure, | |
| As my sweet sweeting. | |
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| In all this world, as thinketh me, | |
| Is none so pleasant to my ee, | |
| That I am glad so oft to see, | 10 |
| As my sweet sweeting. | |
| When I behold my sweeting sweet, | |
| Her face, her hands, her minion feet, | |
| They seem to me there is none so mete, | |
| As my sweet sweeting. | 15 |
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| Above all other praise must I, | |
| And love my pretty pygsnye, | |
| For none I find so womanly | |
| As my sweet sweeting. | | | | |
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