Love not me for comely grace
Anonymous · 1600
Public domain
From The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave. Anonymous. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor for any outward part,
No, nor for a constant heart,--
For these may fail, or turn to ill,
So thou and I shall sever:
Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,
And love me still, but know not why--
So hast thou the same reason still
To doat upon me ever!