• Go, lovely rose!
    Tell her that wastes her time and me
    That now she knows,
    When I resemble her to thee,
    How sweet and fair she seems to be.

    Tell her that's young,
    And shuns to have her graces spied,
    That hadst thou sprung
    In deserts, where no men abide,
    Thou must have uncommended died.

    Small is the worth
    Of beauty from the light...

  •     GO, lovely rose!
    Tell her that wastes her time and me,
        That now she knows,
    When I resemble her to thee,
    How sweet and fair she seems to be.

        Tell her that ’s young,
    And shuns to have her graces spied,
        That hadst thou sprung
    In deserts, where no men abide,
    Thou must have uncommended died.

        ...