<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519195" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Coridon to his Phillis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas my hart, mine eye hath wrongèd thee,<br>Presumptious eye, to gaze on Phillis face:<br>Whose heavenly eye no mortall man may see<br>But he must die, or purchase Phillis grace.<br> Poor Coridon, the Nimph whose eye doth moove thee,<br> Dooth love to draw, but is not drawne to love thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Her beautie, Nature's pride, and sheepheards praise,<br>Her eye, the heavenly Planet of my life:<br>Her matchlesse wit and grace, her fame displaies,<br>As if that love had made her for his wife.<br> Onely, her eyes shoote fierie darts to kill,<br> Yet is her hart as cold as Caucase hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>My wings too weake to flye against the Sunne,<br>Mine eyes unable to sustaine her light,<br>My hart doth yeeld that I am quite undone,<br>Thus hath faire Phillis slaine me with her sight.<br> My bud is blasted, withred is my leafe<br> And all my corne is rotted in the sheafe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Phillis, the golden fetter of my minde,<br>My fancie's Idoll, and my vitall power:<br>Goddesse of Nimphs, and honour of thy kinde,<br>This Age's Phoenix, Beautie's richest bower.<br> Poore Coridon for love of thee must die:<br> Thy beautie's thrall and conquest of thine eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Leave Coridon to plough the barren field,<br>Thy buds of hope are blasted with disgrace:<br>For Phillis' lookes no harty love doo yeeld,<br>Nor can she love, for all her lovely face.<br> Die Coridon, the spoile of Phillis' eye:<br> She cannot love, and therefore thou must die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Finis.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Edward+Dyer">Sir Edward Dyer</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=519195" data-title="Coridon to his Phillis de Sir Edward Dyer" data-description="Alas my hart, mine eye hath wrongèd thee, Presumptious eye, to gaze on Phillis face: Whose heavenly eye no mortall man may see But he must die, or purchase Phillis grace. Poor Coridon, the Nimph whose eye doth moove thee, Dooth love to draw, bu..."></div> </div> </div>

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