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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Carew. 1595?1639?
293. Ingrateful Beauty threatened
KNOW, Celia, since thou art so proud, | |
‘Twas I that gave thee thy renown. | |
Thou hadst in the forgotten crowd | |
Of common beauties lived unknown, | |
Had not my verse extoll’d thy name, | 5 |
And with it imp’d the wings of Fame. | |
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That killing power is none of thine; | |
I gave it to thy voice and eyes; | |
Thy sweets, thy graces, all are mine; | |
Thou art my star, shin’st in my skies; | 10 |
Then dart not from thy borrow’d sphere | |
Lightning on him that fix’d thee there. | |
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Tempt me with such affrights no more, | |
Lest what I made I uncreate; | |
Let fools thy mystic form adore, | 15 |
I know thee in thy mortal state. | |
Wise poets, that wrapt Truth in tales, | |
Knew her themselves through all her veils. | |
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GLOSS: imp’d] grafted with new feathers. |