by Edmund Waller (1608 - 1687)

Language: English 
It is not that I love you less
    Than when before your feet I lay:
But to prevent the sad increase
    Of hopeless love, I keep away.

In vain! (alas!) for ev'ry thing
    Which I have known belong to you,
Your form does to my fancy bring,
    And makes my old wounds bleed anew.

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Composition:

    Set to music by John Blow (1649 - 1708), "The self-banished", published 1700, stanzas 1-2, from Amphion Anglicus

Text Authorship:

  • by Edmund Waller (1608 - 1687), "The self banished", written 1645

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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-07
Line count: 20
Word count: 136