Still to be neat, still to be dressed,
As you were going to a feast;
Still to be powdered, still perfumed;
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Give me a look, give me a face
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes losely flowing, hair as free;
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all th' adulteries of art.
They strike mine eyes but not my heart.
Clerimont's Song
Ben Jonson
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Poem topics: hair, heart, face, lady, sound, I love you, I miss you, sweet, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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