Richard Lovelace. Love Conquer'd. A Song. (original) (raw)

Richard Lovelace.

| | _Love Conquer'd._A Song.Set by Mr. Henry Lawes. I THE childish God of Love did sweare Thus: by my awfull Bow and Quiver, Yon' weeping, kissing, smiling pair, I'le scatter all their vowes i' th' Ayr, And their knit imbraces shiver. II Up then to th' head with his best Art Full of spite and envy blowne, At her constant Marble Heart, He drawes his swiftest surest dart, Which bounded back, and hit his owne. III Now the Prince of fires burnes ! Flames in the luster of her eyes ; Triumphant she, refuses, scornes ; He submits, adores, and mournes And is his Votresse Sacrifice. IVFoolish Boye ! Resolve me now What 'tis to sigh and not be heard ? He weeping, kneel'd, and made a vow, The world shall love as yon' fast two,So on his sing'd wings up he steer'd. * Henry Lawes, 17th-century composer. | | Lucas Cranach, the Elder. Venus and Cupid. 1509. | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Source:
Lovelace, Richard. The Poems of Richard Lovelace.
London: Unit Library, Ltd., 1904. 30.

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