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First Line: What it is to breathe and live without life
Last Line: Delia, my heart hath learned out of those eyes.
Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Peace


What it is to breathe and live without life;
How to be pale with anguish, red with fear;
T' have peace abroad, and nought within but strife;
Wish to be present, and yet shun t' appear;
How to be bold far off, and bashful near;
How to think much, and have no words to speak;
To crave redress, yet hold affliction dear;
To have affection strong, a body weak;
Never to find, and evermore to seek,
And seek that which I dare not hope to find;
T' affect this life, and yet this life disleeke;
Grateful t' another, to myself unkind.
This cruel knowledge of these contraries,
Delia, my heart hath learned out of those eyes.





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