LUCASTA, frown, and let me die,
But smile, and see, I live;
The sad indifference of your eye
Both kills and doth reprieve.
You hide our fate within its screen;
We feel our judgment, ere we hear.
So in one picture I have seen
An angel here, the devil there.
More verses by Richard Lovelace
- To My Truely Valiant, Learned Friend; Who In His Brooke Resolv'D The Art Gladiatory Into The Mathematicks
- In Allusion To The French Song. N'Entendez Vous Pas Ce Language
- Amyntor From Beyond The Sea To Alexis. A Dialogue
- Ellinda's Glove. Sonnet
- To Lucasta, Going Beyond The Seas