To Celia

To Celia

Original Text
H. Kemp, A Collection of Poems, Written on Several Occasions (1672).
1  Not, Celia, that I juster am,
2      Or better than the rest;
3For I would change each hour like them
4      Were not my heart at rest.
5  But I am tied to very thee,
6      By every thought I have;
7Thy face I only care to see,
8      Thy heart I only crave.
9  All that in woman is ador'd
10      In thy dear self I find;
11For the whole sex can but afford
12      The handsome and the kind.
13  Why then should I seek farther store
14      And still make love anew?
15When change itself can give no more,
16      'Tis easy to be true.
Publication Start Year
1672
RPO poem Editors
N. J. Endicott
RPO Edition
2RP 1.517.
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