The Constant Lover

By Sir John Suckling

1609-1642

OUT upon it, I have loved
         Three whole days together!
And am like to love three more,
         If it prove fair weather.

Time shall moult away his wings
         Ere he shall discover
In the whole wide world again
         Such a constant lover.

But the spite on 't is, no praise
         Is due at all to me:
Love with me had made no stays,
         Had it any been but she.

Had it any been but she,
         And that very face,
There had been at least ere this
         A dozen dozen in her place.

DayPoems Poem No. 319
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