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b"G Wither read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Lover\\u2019s Resolution by George Wither\\nby George Wither (1588-1667)\\n\\nShall I, wasting in despair,\\nDie because a woman 's fair?\\nOr make pale my cheeks with care\\n'Cause another's rosy are?\\nBe she fairer than the day,\\nOr the flow'ry meads in May,\\n If she think not well of me,\\n What care I how fair she be?\\nShall my silly heart be pined\\n'Cause I see a woman kind?\\nOr a well disposed nature\\nJoined with a lovely feature?\\nBe she meeker, kinder, than\\nTurtle-dove or pelican,\\n If she be not so to me,\\n What care I how kind she be?\\n\\nShall a woman's virtues move\\nMe to perish for her love?\\nOr her well-deservings known\\nMake me quite forget my own?\\nBe she with that goodness blest\\nWhich may merit name of Best,\\n If she be not such to me,\\n What care I how good she be?\\n\\n'Cause her fortune seems too high,\\nShall I play the fool and die?\\nShe that bears a noble mind,\\nIf not outward helps she find,\\nThinks what with them he would do\\nThat without them dares her woo;\\n And unless that mind I see,\\n What care I how great she be?\\n\\nGreat, or good, or kind, or fair,\\nI will ne'er the more despair;\\nIf she love me, this believe,\\nI will die ere she shall grieve;\\nIf she slight me when I woo,\\nI can scorn and let her go;\\n For if she be not for me,\\n What care I for whom she be?\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 23 July 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008"