Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TENDER HUSBAND: SONG, by RICHARD STEELE Poet's Biography First Line: Why, lovely charmer, tell me why Last Line: I cannot love thee less nor more. | ||||||||
Why, lovely charmer, tell me why, So very kind, so very shy? Why does that cold forbidding air Give damps of sorrow and despair? Or why that smile my soul subdue, And kindle up my flames anew? In vain you strive with all your art, By turns to freeze and fire my heart: When I behold a face so fair, So sweet a look, so soft an air, My ravished soul is charmed all o'er, I cannot love thee less nor more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUNERAL: PROLOGUE by RICHARD STEELE THE LYING LOVER: EPILOGUE by RICHARD STEELE THE LYING LOVER: PROLOGUE by RICHARD STEELE THE TENDER HUSBAND: A SONG DESIGNED FOR THE FOURTH ACT, BUT NOT SET by RICHARD STEELE THE TENDER HUSBAND: EPILOGUE by RICHARD STEELE TO MR. CONGREVE, OCCASIONED BY HIS COMEDY 'THE WAY OF THE WORLD' by RICHARD STEELE THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE by COUNTEE CULLEN SONGS AND THE POET (FOR SARA TEASDALE) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER GRIEF by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
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