The Thief

Thou robb’st my days of business and delights,

Of sleep thou robb’st my nights ;

Ah, lovely thief, what wilt thou do?

What? rob me of heaven too?

Even in my prayers thou hauntest me:

And I, with wild idolatry,

Begin to God, and end them all to thee.

Is it a sin to love, that it should thus

Like an ill conscience torture us?

Whate’er I do, where’er I go-

None guiltless e’er was haunted so!-

Still, still, methinks, thy face I view,

And still thy shape does me pursue,

As if, not you me, but I had murdered you.

From books I strive some remedy to take,

But thy name all the letters make;

Whate’er ’tis writ, I find thee there,

Like points and commas everywhere.

Me blessed for this let no man hold,

For I, as Midas did of old,

Perish by turning every thing to gold.

What do I seek, alas, or why do I

Attempt in vain from thee to fly?

For, making thee my deity,

I gave thee then ubiquity.

My pains resemble hell in this:

The divine presence there too is,

But to torment men, not to give them bliss.

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Poems in English 

• Song. A Beautiful Mistress. by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Song by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Secrecy Protested. by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Persuasions to Joy, a Song by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• My Mistress Commanding Me to Return Her Letters. by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Mediocrity in Love Rejected by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Lips and Eyes. by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Ingrateful Beauty Threatened by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• I Do Not Love Thee For That Fair by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• He That Loves A Rosy Cheek by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Epitaph for Maria Wentworth by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Celia Beeding, To the Surgeon by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Boldness in Love by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Ask Me No More by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• Another by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew
• A Song: When June is Past, the Fading Rose by Thomas Carew by Thomas Carew

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