Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Samuel Daniel. 15621619111. Love is a Sickness
LOVE is a sickness full of woes, | |
All remedies refusing; | |
A plant that with most cutting grows, | |
Most barren with best using. | |
Why so? | 5 |
More we enjoy it, more it dies; | |
If not enjoy’d, it sighing cries— | |
Heigh ho! | |
Love is a torment of the mind, | |
A tempest everlasting; | 10 |
And Jove hath made it of a kind | |
Not well, nor full nor fasting. | |
Why so? | |
More we enjoy it, more it dies; | |
If not enjoy’d, it sighing cries— | 15 |
Heigh ho! |