Katherine Philips Poems

*


Hence Cupid! with your cheating toys,
...

Wee falsely think it due unto our friends,
That we should grieve for their too early ends:
He that surveys the world with serious eys,
And stripps Her from her grosse and weak disguise,
...

.
COme, my Lucasia, since we see
That Miracles Mens faith do move,
By wonder and by prodigy
...

Adieu dear object of my Love's excess,
And with thee all my hopes of happiness,
With the same fervent and unchanged heart
Which did it's whole self once to thee impart,
...

I did not live until this time
Crown'd my felicity,
When I could say without a crime,
I am not thine, but thee.
...

.
Twice forty months of Wedlock did I stay,
Then had my vows crown'd with a Lovely boy,
And yet in forty days he dropt away,
...

1
O! Solitude, my sweetest choice
Places devoted to the night,
Remote from tumult, and from noise,
...

Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre,
Where kindly mingling Souls a while,
Let's innocently spend an houre,
And at all serious follys smile
...

WHat on Earth deserves our trust ?
Youth and Beauty both are dust.
Long we gathering are with pain,
What one moment calls again.
...

Forbear, bold youth; all 's heaven here,
And what you do aver
To others courtship may appear,
'Tis sacrilege to her.
...