Oh for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post S… - John Suckling

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Oh for some honest lover's ghost,
Some kind unbodied post
Sent from the shades below!
I strangely long to know
Whether the nobler chaplets wear
Those that their mistress' scorn did bear,
Or those that were used kindly.

John Suckling

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Sir John Suckling (10 February 1609 – after May 1641) was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage.

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Thomas Moore Letitia Elizabeth Landon Thomas Hood Robert Herrick Lord Byron

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Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?

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Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.

She's pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.

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