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OH, IS IT LOVE? by AMY LEVY

First Line: O IS IT LOVE OR IS IT FAME
Last Line: LIKE A TIGER IN A LEASH.
Subject(s): LOVE;

O IS it Love or is it Fame,
This thing for which I sigh ?
Or has it then no earthly name
For men to call it by ?
I know not what can ease my pains,
Nor what it is I wish ;
The passion at my heart-strings strains
Like a tiger in a leash.



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