Renaissance

If I could get you out of mind,
Stop repeating your name in my thought!
 
I can’t handle the task of this kind –
Can’t resolve to undoing the knot.
 
Love is never an easy ordeal…
I long so for your fleeting embrace!
 
I'd abandon my body and will
Rather than have my feelings disgraced:
 
Ah, my love, but the hour will strike –
I’ll enchant you and take no nay-say
 
So you could come to me, come alive
Like the arts in the Age of Renaissance!