Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FORTUNIO'S SONG, by ALFRED DE MUSSET


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First Line: If you think I shall declare
Last Line: Her name reveal.
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited


IF you think I shall declare
Whose love I seek.
Not for a kingdom would I dare
Her name to speak.

But I will join you in a glee
If you think meet--
That I adore, that fair is she
As is the wheat.

I act but as my fantasy
My will doth stir;
And if she need my life, then I
May give it her.

The anguish that a love untold
Makes us deplore
I carry in my heart of old--
I can no more.

I love too deeply to declare
Whose love I feel;
And for my Love can die, but ne'er
Her name reveal.





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