Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG: THE LOVER'S FATE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard is the fate of him who loves Last Line: True love and friendship are the same. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of | ||||||||
Hard is the fate of him who loves, Yet dares not tell his trembling pain, But to the sympathetic groves, But to the lonely listening plain, Oh! when she blesses next your shade, Oh! when her footsteps next are seen In flowery tracts along the mead, In fresher mazes o'er the green: Ye gentle spirits of the vale, To whom the tears of love are dear, From dying lilies waft a gale, And sigh my sorrows in her ear. Oh! tell her what she cannot blame, Though fear my tongue must ever bind; Oh, tell her, that my virtuous flame Is, as her spotless soul, refined. Not her own guardian-angel eyes With chaster tenderness his care, Not purer her own wishes rise, Not holier her own sighs in prayer. But if at first her virgin fear Should start at love's suspected name, With that of friendship soothe her ear -- True love and friendship are the same. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RESCUE THE DEAD by DAVID IGNATOW BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 27 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 30 by JAMES JOYCE HE WHO KNOWS LOVE by ELSA BARKER LOVE'S HUMBLENESS by ELSA BARKER SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE) by APHRA BEHN HYMN ON SOLITUDE by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE: CANTO 1 by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) |
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