Quote#Love
Ask me why this flower does show
Quote byThomas Carew · 1594–1640
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1640, '42, '51), The Primrose, st. 2.
English (original)
Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break? I will answer: These discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.
— 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.
Love no more is made By the fireside, but in the cooler shade.
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.