IDENTILIN$$ F024NY1/Sappho NYPL John Cave MS\pp.[113-14]/TJS/mf/4-9-91\P:GAS?\?\C:JSC 024.NY1.0HE Eleg. 18%5th%6. 024.NY1.001 Where is y%5t%6 hott fire w%5ch%6 verse is sayd 024.NY1.002 to haue? is y%5t%6 inchanting force decayd? 024.NY1.003 Verse y%5t%6 drawes Natures workes from Naturs law 024.NY1.004 That her best worke to her worke cannot draw. 024.NY1.005 Haue my teares quencht my old poetiq%Q fire? 024.NY1.006 why quench they not as well y%5t%6 of desire? 024.NY1.007 Thoughts (my minds creatures) often are w%5th%6 the 024.NY1.008 But oh theire maker wants its libertye 024.NY1.009 only thy Image in my heart doth sitt 024.NY1.010 but it is Wax and fires inuirone it. 024.NY1.011 my fires haue driuen thine haue drawn it hence 024.NY1.012 and I am robd of picture, harte, and sense. 024.NY1.013 w%5th%6>%Vin< %Yfyre%Z still dwells my irkesome memory 024.NY1.014 w%5ch%6 both to keep and lose greiues ae%Lqually. 024.NY1.015 That tells me how fayre thou arte, euen so fayre 024.NY1.016 as Gods; when Gods I doe to thee compare 024.NY1.017 are gracd by thee, and to make blind men see 024.NY1.018 what things Gods are I say they are like thee. 024.NY1.019 ffor if we iustly call each silly Man 024.NY1.020 a little world w%5t%6 shall we call thee than? 024.NY1.021 Thou art not softe and cleere, and straight, & fayre 024.NY1.022 as Downe, as Starrs, Cedars and Lillyes are 024.NY1.023 But thy right hand and cheeke, and eye only 024.NY1.024 are like thy toth%5er%6 hand and cheeke and eye. 024.NY1.025 Such was my %1Phao%2 a while but shalbe neu%5r%6, 024.NY1.026 as thou wa'st, art, and may'st y%5u%6 be foreu%5er%6. 024.NY1.027 Here louers swere in theire idolatrye 024.NY1.028 that I am such but greife discouers mee. 024.NY1.029 And yet I greiue the lesse lest greife remoue 024.NY1.030 my beuty, and make me unworthy of thy %Jloue%K [MN:>>Desunt nihil hic/nisi carmina<<] 024.NY1.031om 024.NY1.032om 024.NY1.033om 024.NY1.034om 024.NY1.035om 024.NY1.036om 024.NY1.037om 024.NY1.038om 024.NY1.039om 024.NY1.040om 024.NY1.041om 024.NY1.042om 024.NY1.043om 024.NY1.044om 024.NY1.045om 024.NY1.046om 024.NY1.047om 024.NY1.048om 024.NY1.049om 024.NY1.050om 024.NY1.051om 024.NY1.052om 024.NY1.053om 024.NY1.054om 024.NY1.055 Mee in my glasse I call thee; but alasse 024.NY1.056 when I would kisse teares dimme my eyes and glasse 024.NY1.057 O cure this louing madnesse and restore [114] 024.NY1.058 mee to mee, thee, my heart, my all, my more 024.NY1.059 So may thy cheeks outweare the scarlett dye 024.NY1.060om 024.NY1.061 So may thy mighty amazing beutie moue 024.NY1.062 enuye in all women and in all men loue 024.NY1.063 And so be chang and sicknesse farr fro%M thee 024.NY1.064 as y%5u%6 by coming neer kepst y%5m%6 fro%M mee. 024.NY1.0SS ffinis Eleg.18%5th%6. Io. Donn.|. 024.NY1.0$$ %1MS very light; m:note at l. 30,%2 Desunt nihil hic/nisi carmina, %1is 2nd hand; poem numbered 52 (LII) in RM op HE%2