Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON HER ENDEAVOURING TO CONCEAL HER GRIEF AT PARTING, by WILLIAM COWPER


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First Line: Ah! Wherefore should my weeping maid suppress
Last Line: Nor think it weakness what we feel to show.
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


AH! wherefore should my weeping maid suppress
Those gentle signs of undissembled woe?
When from soft love proceeds the deep distress,
Ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

Since for my sake each dear translucent drop
Breaks forth, best witness of thy truth sincere,
My lips should drink the precious mixture up,
And, ere it falls, receive the trembling tear.

Trust me, these symptoms of thy faithful heart
In absence shall my dearest hopes sustain;
Delia! since such thy sorrow that we part,
Such when we meet thy joy shall be again.

Hard is that heart and unsubdued by love
That feels no pain, nor ever heaves a sigh;
Such hearts the fiercest passions only prove,
Or freeze in cold insensibility.

Oh! then indulge thy grief, nor fear to tell
The gentle source from whence thy sorrows flow;
Nor think it weakness when we love to feel,
Nor think it weakness what we feel to show.





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