To Lucasta [Like To The Sent'nel Stars, I Watch All Night]

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Title:     To Lucasta [Like To The Sent'nel Stars, I Watch All Night]
Author: Richard Lovelace [More Titles by Lovelace]

I.

Like to the sent'nel stars, I watch all night;
For still the grand round of your light
And glorious breast
Awake<1> in me an east:
Nor will my rolling eyes ere know a west.

II.

Now on my down I'm toss'd as on a wave,
And my repose is made my grave;
Fluttering I lye,
Do beat my self and dye,
But for a resurrection from your eye.

III.

Ah, my fair murdresse! dost thou cruelly heal
With various pains to make me well?
Then let me be
Thy cut anatomie,
And in each mangled part my heart you'l see.

NOTE:
<1> Original has AWAKES.

[The end]
Richard Lovelace's poem: To Lucasta [Like To The Sent'nel Stars, I Watch All Night]

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