Poet's Walk Author:Mowbray Morris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Manly Heart 7 THE MANL Y HEART Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are ? ... more »Be she fairer than the day Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care 1 how fair she be ? Shall my foolish heart be pined 'Cause I see a woman kind ; Or a well disposed nature Joined with a lovely feature ? Be she meeker, kinder, than Turtle-dove or pelican, If she be not so to me, What care I how kind she be ? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love ? Or her well-deservings known Make me quite forget mine own ? Be she with that goodness blest Which may merit name of Best, If she be not such to me, What care I how good she be ? 'Cause her fortune seems too high, Shall I play the fool and die ? She that bears a noble mind If not outward helps she find, Thinks what with them he would do Who without them dares her woo ; And unless that mind I see, What care I how great she be ? Great or good, or kind or fair, I will never more despair ; If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve ; If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go ; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be ? George Wither. TRUE BEAUTY He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires ; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never dying fires.— Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes. Thomas Carew. 9 THE COUNTRY LIFE SWEET country life, to such unknown, Whose lives are others', not their own, But se...« less