Poems from Fulke Greville

#7

Everything changes thank God Myrna my love

#12

I pitied Cupid and took him in but he left me for my love

#16

“All’s dark unto the blind” Desire stands in its own shadow but love in herself is ever bright

#29

Farewell Fortune of the Courts My saint is in the Woods

#39

Last night I was in Eden; that is, I was with Caelica, but now I am forbidden, and Eden is proved by broken fence a common field

#40

Caelica’s like an ear of wheat. Soon she’ll be ready to eat.

#45

You hurt me when I’m near you But I hurt myself when I’m not

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22 August 1976