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THE TARANTULA OF LOVE.
The waves within the seas them calmly close;
To all things nature order does impose:
But not to love, that proudly doth me thrall,
Who all the days and nights, but change or chose,
Stirs up the coals of fire unto my fall,
And sows his briars and thorns within my heart,
The fruits whereof are double grief and smart.
To all things nature order does impose:
But not to love, that proudly doth me thrall,
Who all the days and nights, but change or chose,
Stirs up the coals of fire unto my fall,
And sows his briars and thorns within my heart,
The fruits whereof are double grief and smart.
SONNET.
Ten thousand times from side to side I turn,
And, restless, roll as on a hedge of thorn;
All thir cold nights I gaunt, I glow and burn,
I wish for day, yet languish while the morn;
And thinking all that time I hear a horn,
Announcing that Aurora does appear
To glad my heart, by languor all forlorn,
And closed darkness of my eyes to clear;
I make this verse, but light and learn perquire,
Not knowing yet the sequel of the same;
Disturbed with yowling hounds that hourly beir,
And cackling crows, that seems my pain proclaim;
And cry of thee, whose beauty works my smart,
Ruth in thy eyes, and rigour in thy heart.
And, restless, roll as on a hedge of thorn;
All thir cold nights I gaunt, I glow and burn,
I wish for day, yet languish while the morn;
And thinking all that time I hear a horn,
Announcing that Aurora does appear
To glad my heart, by languor all forlorn,
And closed darkness of my eyes to clear;
I make this verse, but light and learn perquire,
Not knowing yet the sequel of the same;
Disturbed with yowling hounds that hourly beir,
And cackling crows, that seems my pain proclaim;
And cry of thee, whose beauty works my smart,
Ruth in thy eyes, and rigour in thy heart.
