Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
William Shakespeare. 15641616133. Sweet-and-Twenty
O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming? | |
O, stay and hear! your true love ‘s coming, | |
That can sing both high and low: | |
Trip no further, pretty sweeting; | |
Journeys end in lovers meeting, | 5 |
Every wise man’s son doth know. | |
What is love? ’tis not hereafter; | |
Present mirth hath present laughter; | |
What ‘s to come is still unsure: | |
In delay there lies no plenty; | 10 |
Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty! | |
Youth ‘s a stuff will not endure. |