| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
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| Thomas Carew |
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| 30. Eternity of Love protested |
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| HOW ill doth he deserve a Lovers name, | |
| Whose pale weak flame | |
| Cannot retain | |
| His heat in spight of absence or disdain; | |
| But doth at once, like paper set on fire, | 5 |
| Burn and expire; | |
| True love can never change his seat, | |
| Nor did he ever love, that could retreat. | |
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| That noble flame, which my brest keeps alive, | |
| Shall still survive, | 10 |
| When my soule's fled; | |
| Nor shall my love dye, when my bodye's dead, | |
| That shall wait on me to the lower shade, | |
| And never fade: | |
| My very ashes in their urn, | 15 |
| Shall, like a hallowed Lamp, for ever burn. | |
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