Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | II. Love’s Nature | | “Love is a sickness” | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | LOVE is a sickness full of woes, | |
| All remedies refusing; | |
| A plant that most with cutting grows, | |
| Most barren with best using. | |
| Why so? | 5 |
| More we enjoy it, more it dies; | |
| If not enjoyed, it sighing cries | |
| Heigh-ho! | |
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| Love is a torment of the mind, | |
| A tempest everlasting; | 10 |
| And Jove hath made it of a kind, | |
| Not well, nor full, nor fasting. | |
| Why so? | |
| More we enjoy it, more it dies; | |
| If not enjoyed, it sighing cries | 15 |
| Heigh-ho! | | | | |
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