Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Stanley. 16251678394. The Relapse
O TURN away those cruel eyes, | |
The stars of my undoing! | |
Or death, in such a bright disguise, | |
May tempt a second wooing. | |
Punish their blind and impious pride, | 5 |
Who dare contemn thy glory; | |
It was my fall that deified | |
Thy name, and seal’d thy story. | |
Yet no new sufferings can prepare | |
A higher praise to crown thee; | 10 |
Though my first death proclaim thee fair, | |
My second will unthrone thee. | |
Lovers will doubt thou canst entice | |
No other for thy fuel, | |
And if thou burn one victim twice, | 15 |
Both think thee poor and cruel. |