In Mine One Monument I Lye

Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657



I.

In mine one monument I lye,
And in my self am buried;
Sure, the quick lightning of her eye
Melted my soul ith' scabberd dead;
And now like some pale ghost I walk,
And with another's spirit talk.

II.

Nor can her beams a heat convey,
That may my frozen bosome warm,
Unless her smiles have pow'r, as they,
That a cross charm can countercharm.
But this is such a pleasing pain,
I'm loth to be alive again.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAXBB CDCDXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 409
Words 81
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6

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