Richard Lovelace - Lucasta

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Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace
Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

Richard Lovelace
Though Seas and Land betwixt us both,
Our Faith and Troth,
Like separated soules,
All time and space controules:
Above the highest sphere wee meet
Unseene, unknowne, and greet as Angels greet.

Richard Lovelace
If to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that when I am gone,
You and I were alone;
Then, my Lucasta, might I crave
Pity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave.

Richard Lovelace
Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind,
To war and arms I fly.

Richard Lovelace
Oh, could you view the melody Of every grace And music of her face, You'd drop a tear; Seeing more harmony In her bright eye Than now you hear.

Richard Lovelace
Then Love, I beg, when next thou takest thy bow,
Thy angry shafts, and dost heart-chasing go,
Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe.

Richard Lovelace
When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames.

Richard Lovelace
When flowing cups pass swiftly round
With no allaying Thames.

Richard Lovelace
Here we'll strip and cool our fire
In cream below, in milk-baths higher;
And when all wells are drawn dry,
I'll drink a tear out of thine eye.

Richard Lovelace
I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
Loved I not honour more.

Richard Lovelace
Then, if when I have lov'd my round,
Thou prov'st the pleasant she,
With spoils of meaner beauties crown'd
I laden will return to thee,
Ev'n sated with variety.

Richard Lovelace
When I lie tangled in her hair,
And fettered to her eye,
The gods that wanton in the air
Know no such liberty.

Richard Lovelace