Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921.

By Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1624–1674)

Love and Poetry

O LOVE, how thou art tired out with rhyme!

Thou art a tree whereon all poets clime;

And from thy branches every one takes some

Of thy sweet fruit, which Fancy feeds upon.

But now thy tree is left so bare and poor,

That they can scarcely gather one plumb more.