The Change

LOVE in her sunny eyes does basking play;

Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;

Love does on both her lips for ever stray

And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there.

In all her outward parts Love’s always seen;

But, oh, He never went within.

Within Love’s foes, his greatest foes abide,

Malice, Inconstance, and Pride.

So the Earth’s face, trees, herbs, and flowers do dress,

With other beauties numberless;

But at the center, darkness is, and Hell;

There wicked spirits, and there the Damned dwell.

With me alas, quite contrary it fares;

Darkness and death lies in my weeping eyes,

Despair and paleness in my face appears,

And grief, and fear, Love’s greatest enemies;

But, like the Persian tyrant, Love within

Keeps his proud court, and ne’re is seen.

Oh take my heart, and by that means you’ll prove

Within, too stor’d enough of Love;

Give me but yours, I’ll by that change so thrive,

That Love in all my parts shall live.

So powerful is this change, it render can,

My outside woman, and your inside man.

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• Autumn Leaves by Thomas J Camp by Poetry In English
• You by Thonda Sri Indrani by Poetry In English
• You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Written at Stonehenge by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Why? by Tiffany Ann Monroe by Poetry In English
• While Summer Suns O’er the Gay Prospect Play’d by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• We are Africa by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon by Poetry In English
• Virgule by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• Vagueness Petrified by Thonda Sri Indrani by Poetry In English
• Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Town Planning Agencies by Tilottama Chatterjee by Poetry In English
• Torn Shades by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole by Poetry In English
• The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
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