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Thomas Carew
1594 - 1640
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Mediocrity In Love Rejected
Give me more love or more disdain; / The torrid, or the frozen zone, / Bring equal ease unto my pain;
My Mistress Commanding Me To Return Her Letters
So grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws / All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows / Into the angry main, to save from wrack
Secrecy Protested
Fear not, dear love, that I'll reveal / Those hours of pleasure we two steal; / No eye shall see, nor yet the sun
Song - A Beautiful Mistress
If when the sun at noon displays / His brighter rays, / Thou but appear,
Song - Good Counsel To A Young Maid
Gaze not on thy beauty's pride, / Tender maid, in the false tide / That from lovers' eyes doth slide.
Song - Murdering Beauty
I'll gaze no more on her bewitching face, / Since ruin harbours there in every place; / For my enchanted soul alike she drowns
Song - Persuasions To Enjoy
If the quick spirits in your eye / Now languish and anon must die; / If every sweet and every grace
The Primrose
Ask me why I send you here / The firstling of the infant year; / Ask me why I send to you
The Spring
Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost / Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost / Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream
To A Lady That Desired I Would Love Her
Now you have freely given me leave to love, / What will you do? / Shall I your mirth, or passion move,
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