Tell Me No More How Fair She Is

Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)



TELL me no more how fair she is,
I have no minde to hear
The story of that distant bliss
I never shall come near:
By sad experience I have found
That her perfection is my wound.

And tell me not how fond I am
To tempt a daring Fate,
From whence no triumph ever came,
But to repent too late:
There is some hope ere long I may
In silence dote my self away.

I ask no pity (Love) from thee,
Nor will thy justice blame,
So that thou wilt not envy me
The glory of my flame:
Which crowns my heart when ere it dyes,
In that it falls her sacrifice.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXAA XBCBDD ECECXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 545
Words 115
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6

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