The Good-Morrow
- I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
- Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then,
- But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
- Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
- 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
- If ever any beauty I did see,
- Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
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- And now good morrow to our waking souls,
- Which watch not one another out of fear;
- For love all love of other sights controls,
- And makes one little room an everywhere.
- Let sea discovers to new worlds have gone,
- Let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown:
- Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one.
- My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
- And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
- Where can we find two better hemishperes,
- Without sharp North, without declining West?
- Whatever dies was not mixed equally;
- If our two loves be one, or thou and I
- Love so alike that none do slacken, none can die.
From: Songs and Sonnets, 1633.
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