Tag: The Passionate Pilgrim

  • November 21

    November 21

    Sparkling False


    Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle;
    Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty;
    Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is, brittle;
    Softer than wax, and yet, as iron, rusty:
    A lily pale, with damask dye to grace her,
    None fairer, nor none falser to deface her.

    –The Passionate Pilgrim

  • October 20

    October 20

    Unsatisfactory Strumpet


    She burn’d with love, as straw with fire flameth;
    She burn’d out love, as soon as straw outburneth…

    Was this a lover, or a lecher whether?
    Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.

  • August 16

    August 16

    Dirk Diggler


    Were kisses all the joys in bed,
    One woman would another wed.

    -The Passionate Pilgrim