Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | I. Admiration | | Constancy | | Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
| | | OUT upon it. I have loved | |
| Three whole days together; | |
| And am like to love three more, | |
| If it prove fair weather. | |
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| Time shall moult away his wings, | 5 |
| Ere he shall discover | |
| In the whole wide world again | |
| Such a constant lover. | |
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| But the spite on ’t is, no praise | |
| Is due at all to me; | 10 |
| Love with me had made no stays, | |
| Had it any been but she. | |
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| Had it any been but she, | |
| And that very face, | |
| There had been at least ere this | 15 |
| A dozen in her place. | | | | |
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