Quote#Courage
But if the envious nymphs shall fear
Quote byThomas Carew · 1594–1640
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1640, '42, '51), On Sight of a Gentlewoman's Face in the Water, sts. 4–5.
English (original)
But if the envious nymphs shall fear Their beauties will be scorn'd, And hire the ruder winds to tear That face which you adorn'd;Then rage and foam amain, that we Their malice may despise; And from your froth we soon shall see A second Venus rise.
— Thomas Carew
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Think not, 'cause men flatt'ring say, Y' are fresh as April, sweet as May, Bright as the morning star, That you are so.
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.
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.
And old folks say there are no pains Like itch of love in agèd veins.