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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408213" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Complaint of a Lover that Defied Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN Summer took in hand the winter to assail,<br>With force of might, and virtue great, his stormy blasts to quail :<br>And when he clothed fair the earth about with green,<br>And every tree new garmented, that pleasure was to seen :<br>Mine heart gan new revive, and changed blood did stir,<br>Me to withdraw my winter woes, that kept within the dore. 1<br>'Abroad,' quoth my desire, 'assay to set thy foot ;<br>Where thou shalt find the savour sweet ; for sprung is every root.<br>And to thy health, if thou were sick in any case,<br>Nothing more good than in the spring the air to feel a space.<br>There shalt thou hear and see all kinds of birds y-wrought,<br>Well tune their voice with warble small, as nature hath them taught.'<br>Thus pricked me my lust the sluggish house to leave,<br>And for my health I thought it best such counsel to receive.<br>So on a morrow forth, unwist of any wight,<br>I went to prove how well it would my heavy burden light.<br>And when I felt the air so pleasant round about,<br>Lord ! to myself how glad I was that I had gotten out.<br>There might I see how Ver 2 had every blossom hent, 3<br>And eke the new betrothed birds, y-coupled how they went ;<br>And in their songs, methought, they thanked Nature much,<br>That by her license all that year to love, their hap was such,<br>Right as they could devise to choose them feres 4 throughout :<br>With much rejoicing to their Lord, thus flew they all about.<br>Which when I gan resolve, and in my head conceive,<br>What pleasant life, what heaps of joy, these little birds receive ;<br>And saw in what estate I, weary man, was wrought,<br>By want of that, they had at will, and I reject at nought ;<br>Lord ! how I gan in wrath unwisely me demean !<br>I cursed Love, and him defied ; I thought to turn the stream.<br>But when I well beheld, he had me under awe,<br>I asked mercy for my fault, that so transgrest his law :<br>' Thou blinded God,' quoth I, ' forgive me this offence,<br>Unwittingly I went about, to malice thy pretence.'<br>Wherewith he gave a beck, and thus methought he swore :<br>' Thy sorrow ought suffice to purge thy fault, if it were more.'<br>The virtue of which sound mine heart did so revive,<br>That I, methought, was made as whole as any man alive.<br>But here I may perceive mine error, all and some,<br>For that I thought that so it was ; yet was it still undone ;<br>And all that was no more but mine expressed mind,<br>That fain would have some good relief, of Cupid well assign'd.<br>I turned home forthwith, and might perceive it well,<br>That he aggrieved was right sore with me for my rebel.<br>My harms have ever since increased more and more,<br>And I remain, without his help undone, for ever more.<br>A mirror let me be unto ye lovers all ;<br>Strive not with love ; for if ye do, it will ye thus befall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Howard">Henry Howard</a><div class=q>
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With force of might, and virtue great, his stormy blasts to quail :
And when he clothed fair the earth about with green,
And every tree new garmented, that pleasure was to seen :
Mine heart gan new re..."></div>
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