Song: I prithee spare me gentle boy - Valentine's Day

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English - Poesías en inglés San Valentín

Song: I prithee spare me gentle boy

I prithee spare me gentle boy,

Press me no more for that slight toy,

That foolish trifle of an heart;

I swear it will not do its part,

Though thou dost thine, employ’st thy pow’r and art.

For through long custom it has known

The little secrets, and is grown

Sullen and wise, will have its will,

And like old hawks pursues that still

That makes least sport, flies only where’t can kill.

Some youth that has not made his story,

Will think perchance the pain’s the glory,

And mannerly sit out love’s feast;

I shall be carving of the best,

Rudely call for the last course ’fore the rest.

And oh when once that course is past,

How short a time the feast doth last;

Men rise away and scarce say grace,

Or civilly once thank the face

That did invite, but seek another place.

By Sir John Suckling

John Suckling was an English poet and gentleman, whose best known poem is "Ballad Upon a Wedding". He wrote serious poems, but is especially remembered for his lyrical poems, light and cynical as if he had been improvising. He is a "gallant, gentle, easy, lyrical, cultivated" poet.

🔆 Read more Poems

Adblock test (Why?)