Love Banish'd Heaven, In Earth Was Held In Scorn

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Title:     Love Banish'd Heaven, In Earth Was Held In Scorn
Author: Michael Drayton [More Titles by Drayton]

Love banish'd heaven, in earth was held in scorn,
Wandring abroad in need and beggary,
And wanting friends though of a Goddesse born,
Yet crav'd the almes of such as passed by.
I like a man, devout and charitable;
Clothed the naked, lodg'd this wandring guest,
With sighs and tears still furnishing his table,
With what might make the miserable blest;
But this ungratefull for my good desert,
Entic'd my thoughts against me to conspire,
Who gave consent to steal away my heart,
And set my breast his lodging on a fire:
Well, well, my friends, when beggars grow thus bold,
No marvel then though charity grow cold.

[The end]
Michael Drayton's poem: Love Banish'd Heaven, In Earth Was Held In Scorn

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