Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MY LOVE, by THE AMOROUS LADY [PSEUD.]


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TO MY LOVE, by                    
First Line: "when, in my fond embraces fast confined"
Last Line: "no faithless maxims to my breast impart, / to change the nature of my breaking heart"
Alternate Author Name(s): The Amorous Lady
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


WHEN, in my fond embraces fast confined,
My trembling arms my agonies expressed,
No tear in sad society was joined
To cheer me, pale and speechless on thy breast;
Scarce had I life from thy dear sight to part,
So fixed my eyes, so full my breaking heart.

Fain would my lips have sighed 'Adieu! Adieu!',
But rising sorrow would not give them leave;
My words, like traitors, they forsook me too;
My sighs themselves had scarcely power to heave;
My arms alone with grasping could impart
The agony that filled my breaking heart.

As I a thousand, thousand times embraced,
Hoping by every one to make thee kind,
In vain my weeping eyes thy features traced
(And features speak the passions of the mind):
Still wert thou unconcerned; nor didst impart
One sigh of thine to those that swell'st my heart.

While I was grieved to such a kind excess,
Oh! how untimely must thy prudence be,
To bid me meet, with artful tenderness,
The arms that were no friends to love or thee.
Beware how you instruct me in that part,
Lest I give him the true, and thee the faithless heart.

Bid the rude North be gentle to the spring,
Or kiss the new-born flowers with tender care;
To reconcilements all aversions bring;
But oh! to me thy dull advice forbear:
No faithless maxims to my breast impart,
To change the nature of my breaking heart.





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