Madrigal
by Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury
Dear, when I did from you remove,
I left my joy, but not my love :
That never can depart.
It neither higher can ascend,
Nor lower bend ;
Fixed in the center of my heart,
As in his place,
And lodgèd so, how can it change,
Or you grow strange?
Those are earth's properties and base.
Each where, as the bodies divine,
Heaven's lights and you to me will shine.
Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Lyrics.
Matthew W. Black, Ed.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1938. 349-350.
 |
to Lord Herbert |
Site copyright ©1996-2004 Anniina Jokinen. All rights reserved.
Created by Anniina Jokinen
on May 25, 2004.
Background by the kind permission of Roger Hamstra's Silk Purse
Graphics.