Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SYMPATHY; TO JULIA, by THOMAS MOORE


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First Line: Our hearts, my love, were doom'd to be
Last Line: "now, love, we feel together!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy


OUR hearts, my love, were doom'd to be
The genuine twins of Sympathy:
They live with one sensation:
In joy or grief, but most in love,
Our heart-strings musically move,
And thrill with like vibration.

How often have I heard thee say,
Thy vital pulse shall cease to play
When mine no more is moving!
Since, now, to feel a joy alone
Were worse to thee than feeling none:
Such sympathy in loving!

And, oh! how often in those eyes,
Which melting beam'd, like azure skies
In dewy vernal weather --
How often have I raptured read
The burning glance, that silent said,
"Now, love, we feel together!"





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