William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
Love Winged My HopesAnonymous
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Far from base earth, but not to mount too high:
For true pleasure
Lives in measure,
Which if men forsake,
Blinded they into folly run and grief for pleasure take.
Enamour’d sought to woo the sun’s fair light,
Whose rich brightness
Moved their lightness
To aspire so high
That, all scorch’d and consumed with fire, now drowned in woe they lie.
For Love did know that their desires were true;
Though Fate frownèd,
And now drownèd
They in sorrow dwell,
It was the purest light of heaven for whose fair love they fell.