Rebel Verses

<h2><SPAN name="Love_not_too_much" id="Love_not_too_much"></SPAN>Love not too much</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Have you too greatly loved?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sister take warning!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Once let your soul be moved,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sable your mourning;<br/></span> <span class="i0">If he be satiate,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then an ingratiate,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Waiteth the dawning.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Shew not the passion<br/></span> <span class="i0">That stirs in your veins,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Far more alluring<br/></span> <span class="i0">To handle the reins,<br/></span> <span class="i0">His love ensuring....<br/></span> <span class="i0">In masculine fashion<br/></span> <span class="i0">If certain&mdash;he wanes.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">He the pursuer<br/></span> <span class="i0">Must ever press on,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Passionate wooer<br/></span> <span class="i0">Whilst you are a stone;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Shew but a touch,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Yet never too much<br/></span> <span class="i0">And the battle is won.<span class="pagenum">[45]</span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Man is a monster<br/></span> <span class="i0">Made to be stroked,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Close then your arms<br/></span> <span class="i0">Cover your charms;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Great the enticement<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of beauties when hidden,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of passion well cloaked.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Crazed, he shall plead,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For what you yield gladly,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fiercer his greed,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For what you give madly;<br/></span> <span class="i0">You may have measure<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of love's burning pleasure<br/></span> <span class="i0">And still hold your treasure....<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sister take heed!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum">[46]</span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />