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As the birds do love the spring,
Or the bees their careful king


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I did not know that thou wert dead before;
I did not feel the grief I did sustain;
The greater stroke astonisheth the more;
Astonishment takes from us sense of pain.
I stood amazed when others' tears begun,
And now begin to weep when they have done.


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My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

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I do love thee as my lambs
Are belovėd of their dams


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Henry Constable

Henry Constable

Born: 1562
Died: October 9, 1613 (aged 51)
Bio: Henry Constable was an English poet, known particularly for Diana, one of the first English sonnet sequences. In 1591 he converted to Catholicism, and lived in exile on the continent for some years.
Known for:
  1. Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles
  2. Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia-Diana
  3. The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment
  4. Diana: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle
  5. Diana

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