| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. 1649–1720 |
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| 418. On One who died discovering her Kindness |
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| SOME vex their souls with jealous pain, | |
| While others sigh for cold disdain: | |
| Love's various slaves we daily see— | |
| Yet happy all compared with me! | |
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| Of all mankind I loved the best | 5 |
| A nymph so far above the rest | |
| That we outshined the Blest above; | |
| In beauty she, as I in love. | |
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| And therefore They, who could not bear | |
| To be outdone by mortals here, | 10 |
| Among themselves have placed her now, | |
| And left me wretched here below. | |
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| All other fate I could have borne, | |
| And even endured her very scorn; | |
| But oh! thus all at once to find | 15 |
| That dread account—both dead and kind! | |
| What heart can hold? If yet I live, | |
| 'Tis but to show how much I grieve. | |
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