The Change

LOVE in her sunny eyes does basking play;

Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;

Love does on both her lips for ever stray

And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there.

In all her outward parts Love’s always seen;

But, oh, He never went within.

Within Love’s foes, his greatest foes abide,

Malice, Inconstance, and Pride.

So the Earth’s face, trees, herbs, and flowers do dress,

With other beauties numberless;

But at the center, darkness is, and Hell;

There wicked spirits, and there the Damned dwell.

With me alas, quite contrary it fares;

Darkness and death lies in my weeping eyes,

Despair and paleness in my face appears,

And grief, and fear, Love’s greatest enemies;

But, like the Persian tyrant, Love within

Keeps his proud court, and ne’re is seen.

Oh take my heart, and by that means you’ll prove

Within, too stor’d enough of Love;

Give me but yours, I’ll by that change so thrive,

That Love in all my parts shall live.

So powerful is this change, it render can,

My outside woman, and your inside man.

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• Михаил Кузмин – Живется нам не плохо by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Зеленая птичка by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Запел петух, таинственный предвестник by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Заключение (Водительница Одигитрия) by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Зачем в тот вечер роковой by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Зачем копье Архистратига by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Я знаю вас не понаслышке by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Выздоравливающей by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Вы молчаливо-нежное дитя by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Вы белое бургундское вино by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Второй свидетель by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Все дни у Бога хороши by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Врезанные в песок заливы by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Врач мудрый нам открыл секрет природы by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Возвращение by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Возможно ль: скоро четверть века by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – Вот после ржавых львов и рева by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – В саду by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – В раскосый блеск зеркал забросив сети by Михаил Кузьмин
• Михаил Кузмин – В ранний утра час покидал Милет я by Михаил Кузьмин

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