<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499029" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Strive Not, Vain Lover</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strive not, vain lover, to be fine; <br>Thy silk's the silk-worm's, and not thine: <br>You lessen to a fly your mistriss' thought, <br>To think it may be in a cobweb caught. <br>What, though her thin transparent lawn <br>Thy heart in a strong net hath drawn: <br>Not all the arms the god of fire ere made <br>Can the soft bulwarks of nak'd love invade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be truly fine, then, and yourself dress <br>In her fair soul's immac'late glass. <br>Then by reflection you may have the bliss <br>Perhaps to see what a true fineness is; <br>When all your gawderies will fit <br>Those only that are poor in wit. <br>She that a clinquant outside doth adore, <br>Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Lovelace">Richard Lovelace</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499029" data-title="Strive Not, Vain Lover de Richard Lovelace" data-description="I. Strive not, vain lover, to be fine; Thy silk's the silk-worm's, and not thine: You lessen to a fly your mistriss' thought, To think it may be in a cobweb caught. What, though her thin transparent lawn Thy heart in a strong net hath drawn:..."></div> </div> </div>

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