@3Shepherdess.@1 Tell me @3Thirsis@1, tell your Anguish, Why you Sigh, and why you Languish; When the Nymph whom you Adore, Grants the Blessing of Possessing, What can Love and I do more? @3Shepherd.@1 Think it's Love beyond all Measure, Makes me faint away with Pleasure; Strength of Cordial may destroy, And the Blessing of possessing Kills me with Excess of Joy. @3Shepherdess. Thirsis@1, how can I believe you? But confess and I'le forgive you; Men are false, and so are you; Never Nature fram'd a Creature To enjoy, and yet be true. @3Shepherd.@1 Mine's a Flame beyond expiring, Still possessing, still desiring, Fit for Love's imperial Crown; Ever shining, and refining, Still the more 'tis melted down. @3Chorus together.@1 Mine's a Flame beyond expiring, Still possessing, still desiring, Fit for Love's imperial Crown; Ever shining, and refining, Still the more 'tis melted down. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ENGLISH GRAVEYARD IN MALACCA by KAREN SWENSON BALLADE OF SCHOPENHAUER'S PHILOSOPHY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS PAX BRITANNICA by ALFRED AUSTIN A THOUGHT FOR MOTHER'S DAY by MAMIE COLLINS BARRY PSALM 23 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ASPIRATIONS: 8 by MATHILDE BLIND ON A FORSAKEN LARK'S NEST by MATHILDE BLIND ON THE DEATH OF REV. LEVI PARSONS by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD TO W.A. AND H.H. ON THEIR DEPARTURE TO EUROPE by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |