Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Idle Tears

John Fletcher (1579–1625)

WEEP no more, nor sigh, nor groan,

Sorrow calls no time that’s gone:

Violets pluck’d, the sweetest rain

Makes not fresh nor grow again.

Trim thy locks, look cheerfully;

Fate’s hid ends eyes cannot see;

Joys as wingèd dreams fly fast,

Why should sadness longer last?

Grief is but a wound to woe;

Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.