English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 91. O Mistress Mine |
| | | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
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| O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming? | |
| O stay and hear! your true-love’s coming | |
| That can sing both high and low; | |
| Trip no further, pretty sweeting, | |
| Journeys end in lovers’ meeting— | 5 |
| Every wise man’s son doth know. | |
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| What is love? ’tis not hereafter; | |
| Present mirth hath present laughter; | |
| What’s to come is still unsure: | |
| In delay there lies no plenty,— | 10 |
| Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-twenty, | |
| Youth’s a stuff will not endure. | |
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