IDENTILIN$$ F024H06/Sappho MS Eng 966.5/pp. 229-31/M:TJS/mf/10-4-91/P:TLP/o/5-5-92/C:JSC
024.H06.HE1 >>P.<< Sappho to Philae%Lnis
024.H06.001 Where is that holy fire w.%5ch%6 verse is sayd
024.H06.002 To haue? Is that enchanting force decayd?
024.H06.003 Verse, that drawes natures worke from natures Law
024.H06.004 Thee, her best worke, to her worke cannot draw
024.H06.005 Haue my Teares quenchd my old Poetique fire
024.H06.006 Why quenchd they not as well that of desire?
024.H06.007 Thoughts, my minds Creatures often ar with thee
024.H06.008 But I theyr Maker want %Ymy%Z>%V|theyr|< liberty
024.H06.009 Onely thine Image in my heart doth sitt
024.H06.010 But that is waxe, and fire envyrons it [CW:My--]
024.H06.011 My fires haue driuen, thine haue drawne it hence [116v]
024.H06.012 And I am robbd of picture heart and sense
024.H06.013 Dwells with mee still mine irksome memory
024.H06.014 W.%5ch%6 both to keepe and loose greeues ae%Lqually
024.H06.015 That tells mee how fayre thou art.  Thou art as fayre
024.H06.016 As Gods, (when Gods to thee I doe compare)
024.H06.017 Ar grac'd thereby, and to make blind men see
024.H06.018 What things Gods are, I say th'are like to thee
024.H06.019 ffor if wee iustly call each silly man
024.H06.020 Another->>A little< world, what shall wee call thee than?
024.H06.021 Thou art not soft and cleere and straight and fayre
024.H06.022 As Downes, as Starrs, Cedars and Lillyes are
024.H06.023 But thy right hand and cheeke and eye onely
024.H06.024 Are like thy other hand and cheeke and eye.
024.H06.025 Such was my Phao a while, but shall bee never
024.H06.026 As thou wert, art, and (oh) mayst thou bee ever.
024.H06.027 Heere Louers sweare in theyr Idolatry
024.H06.028 That I am such, but Greefe discolours mee
024.H06.029 And yet I greeue the lesse, least Greefe remoue
024.H06.030 My Beauty, and make mee vnworthy %Yof%Z %Ythy%Z Loue.
024.H06.031 Playes some soft boy with thee? Oh there wants yet
024.H06.032 A mutuall feeling that should sweeten it
024.H06.033 /His/ Chinne a thorny hayry vnevenesse
024.H06.034 Doth threaten, and some dayly change possesse
024.H06.035 /Thy/ Body is a naturall Paradise
024.H06.036 In whose selfe vnmanur'd all pleasure lyes
024.H06.037 Nor needes Perfection. Why shouldst thou than
024.H06.038 Admitt the tillage of a harsh rough man?
024.H06.039 Men leaue behind them that w.%5ch%6 theyr sinne showes
024.H06.040 And are as Theeues trac'd, w%5ch%6 robb when it snowes
024.H06.041 But of our dallyance no more signes there are
024.H06.042 Then Fishes leaue%Ys%Z in streemes or Birds in Ayre
024.H06.043 And betweene vs all sweetnesse may bee had
024.H06.044 All all that Nature yeelds or Art can adde. [CW:My--]
024.H06.045 My two lipps eyes thighs differ from thy two [117]
024.H06.046 But so as thine from one another doe
024.H06.047 And (oh) no more; the likenesse beeing such,
024.H06.048 Why should they not alike in all parts touch?
024.H06.049 Hand to strange hand, lipp to lipp none denyes.
024.H06.050 Why should th[%V>e<]y Brest to brest or thighs to thighs?
024.H06.051 Likenesse begets such strange selfe flattery
024.H06.052 That touching my selfe, all seemes donne to thee
024.H06.053 My selfe I embrace and my owne hands I kisse
024.H06.054 And amorously thanke my selfe for this
024.H06.055 Mee in my Glasse I call thee.  But alas
024.H06.056 When I would kisse, Teares dim%Me my sight and Glasse:
024.H06.057 O cure this louing madnesse and restore
024.H06.058 Mee to mee, thee, my Halfe, my All, my more
024.H06.059 So may thy Cheekes redd outweare Scarlet dye                               
024.H06.060 And theyr White Whitenesse of the Galaxy
024.H06.061 So may thy mighty amazing beauty moue
024.H06.062 Enuy in all woemen and in all men love
024.H06.063 And so bee change and sicknesse far from thee
024.H06.064 As thou by com%Ming neere keepst them from mee.
024.H06.0SS [four horizontal rules]
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