Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

John Ford (1586–c. 1640)

Penthea’s Dying Song (from The Broken Heart)

OH no more, no more, too late

Sighs are spent; the burning tapers

Of a life as chaste as fate,

Pure as are unwritten papers,

Are burnt out; no heat, no light

Now remains; ’tis ever night.

Love is dead; let lovers’ eyes,

Locked in endless dreams,

Th’ extremes of all extremes,

Ope no more, for now Love dies.

Now Love dies—implying

Love’s martyrs must be ever, ever dying.