Not, Celia, that I juster am
Charles Sedley · 1672
Public domain
From The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave. Charles Sedley. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
Not, Celia, that I juster am
Or better than the rest;
For I would change each hour, like them,
Were not my heart at rest.
But I am tied to very thee
By every thought I have;
Thy face I only care to see,
Thy heart I only crave.
All that in woman is adored
In thy dear self I find--
For the whole sex can but afford
The handsome and the kind.
Why then should I seek further store,
And still make love anew?
When change itself can give no more,
'Tis easy to be true.