Quote#Beauty
If the stout foe will not resign
Quote byThomas Carew · 1594–1640
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1640, '42, '51), A Deposition from Love, st. 3.
English (original)
If the stout foe will not resign, When I besiege a town, I lose but what was never mine; But he that is cast down From enjoy’d beauty, feels a woe Only deposèd kings can know.
— Thomas Carew
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And old folks say there are no pains Like itch of love in agèd veins.
Think not, 'cause men flatt'ring say, Y' are fresh as April, sweet as May, Bright as the morning star, That you are so.
I thought Love’s plagues, like dragons, sat Only to fright us at the gate.
If ev'ry sweet, and ev'ry grace, Must fly from that forsaken face.
Love no more is made By the fireside, but in the cooler shade.
She hath too much divinity for me: You gods, teach her some more humanity.