It is not beauty I demand,
The Loveliness of Love, attributed to Anonymous in Francis Turner Palgrave, The Golden Treasury (Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1861), no. 86, p. 88. Elsewhere attributed to George Darley. Attributed to Carew in S. Austin Allibone, ed., Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1891), p. 62
More quotes by Thomas Carew
Love no more is made
By the fireside, but in the cooler shade.
Nets of passion’s finest thread,
Snaring poems, will be spread,
All to catch thy maidenhead.
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