Lovers' Infiniteness
- If yet I have not all thy love,
- Dear, I shall never have it all;
- I cannot breathe one other sigh, to move,
- Nor can intreat one other tear to fall;
- And all my treasure, which should purchase thee,
- Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters I have spent;
- Yet no more can be due to me,
- Than at the bargain made was meant.
- If then thy gift of love were partial,
- That some to me, some should to others fall,
- Dear, I shall never have thee all.
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- Or if then thou gavest me all,
- All was but all, which thou hadst then;
- But if in thy heart since there be or shall
- New love created be by other men,
- Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears,
- In sighs, in oaths, and letters, outbid me,
- This new love may beget new fears,
- For this love was not vow'd by thee.
- And yet it was, thy gift being general;
- The ground, thy heart, is mine ; what ever shall
- Grow there, dear, I should have it all.
From: Songs and Sonnets, 1633.
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