John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Poems (4)

• Constancy

  I CANNOT change as others do, / Though you unjustly scorn; …

• Love and Life

  All my past life is mine no more; / The flying hours are gone, …

• Return

  Absent from thee, I languish still; / Then ask me not, When I return? …

• To His Mistress

  Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why / Does that eclipsing hand of thine deny …