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IMPROMPTU by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU SAY YOU'RE GLAD I WRITE - OH, SAY NOT SO!
Last Line: TO ME, IT FLOWS A SULLEN STREAM OF TEARS.
Subject(s): GRIEF; POETRY & POETS; SORROW; SADNESS;
You say you're glad I write -- oh, say not so!
My fount of song, dear friend, 's a bitter well;
And when the numbers freely from it flow,
'Tis that my heart, and eyes, o'erflow as well.

Castalia, fam'd of yore, -- the spring divine,
Apollo's smile upon its current wears:
Moore and Anacreon, found its waves were wine,
To me, it flows a sullen stream of tears.



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