Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RECOVERY, by JOHN SHEFFIELD


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First Line: Sighing and languishing I lay
Last Line: Not on mine own desert, but yours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of
Subject(s): Love


SIGHING and languishing I lay,
A stranger grown to all delight,
Passing with tedious thoughts the day,
And with unquiet dreams the night.

For your dear sake, my only care
Was how my fatal love to hide;
For ever drooping with despair,
Neglecting all the world beside:

Till, like some angel from above,
Cornelia came to my relief;
And then I found the joys of love
Can make amends for all the grief.

Those pleasing hopes I now pursue,
Might fail, if you could prove unjust;
But promises from heaven and you,
Who is so impious to mistrust?

Here all my doubts and troubles end;
One tender word my soul assures;
Now am I vain, since I depend
Not on mine own desert, but yours.





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