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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems,
elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] |
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| Farewell to love. |
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| Whilst yet to prove, |
| I thought there was some Deitie in love |
| So did I reverence, and gave |
| Worship, as Atheists at their dying houre |
| Call, what they cannot name, an unknowne power, |
| As ignorantly did I crave: |
| Thus when |
| Things not yet knowne are coveted by men, |
| Our desires give them fashion, and so |
| As they waxe lesser, fall, as they sise, grow. |
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| But, from late faire |
| His hignesse sitting in a golden Chaire, |
| Is not lesse cared for after three dayes |
| By children, then the thing which lovers so
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[CW: Blindly] |