The good-morrow.
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then?
But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?
T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desir'd, and got, t'was but a dreame of thee.
And now good morrow to our waking soules,
Which watch not one another out of feare;
For love, all love of other sights controules,
And makes one little roome, an every where.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne,
Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one.
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,
And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest,
Where can we finde two better hemispheares
Without sharpe North, without declining West?
What ever dyes, was not mixt equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
[SONGS AND SONETS. 1635-69: no division into sections, 1633]
[The good-morrow. 1633-69, A18, L74, N, TCC, TCD:
no title, A25, B, C, D, H40, H49, JC, Lec,
O'F, P, S: Elegie. S96]
[2 lov'd? 1639-69: lov'd, 1633-35]
[3 countrey pleasures, childishly? 1633-54, D, H40,
H49, Lec: childish pleasures seelily? 1669, A18,
A25, B, JC, L74, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TC]
[4 snorted 1633-54, D, H40, H49, Lec, O'F, S96:
slumbred 1669, A18, A25, JC, L74, N, P, TC
seaven sleepers 1633: seven-sleepers 1635-69]
[5 this,] as 1669]
[10 For 1633-69, D, H40, H49, Lec: But rest of
MSS.]
[13 to other, worlds on 1633-54: to other worlds our 1669:
to others, worlds on D, H49, Lec, and other MSS.]
[14 one world 1633-69, D, H49, Lec: our world rest of
MSS.]
[17 better 1633, D, H40, H49, Lec: fitter 1635-69,
and rest of MSS.]
[19 was not] is not 1669]
[20-1 or, thou and I ... can die. 1633, D, H40,
H49, Lec: or, thou and I ... can slacken, ... can die.
Chambers:
both thou and I
Love just alike in all, none of these loves can die.
1635-69, JC, O'F, P:
or thou and I
Love just alike in all, none of these loves can die.
A18, A25, B, L74, S96, TC
As thou and I &c.
H40:
And thou and I &c.
S]