No bridegroom's nor crown-conqueror's mirth To mine compared can be; They have but pieces of this earth, I've all the world in thee.
Katherine Philips
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- “To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship,” fifth stanza; Full public-domain poem read. Complete fifth stanza celebrates the friend above marriage or conquest. Exact wording from Luminarium’s cited edition, Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Lyrics, Matthew W. Black, ed. (1938), pp.375–376; corro
- “To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship,” fifth stanza
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