Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A LADY SINGING, by EDMUND WALLER



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First Line: While I listen to thy voice
Last Line: Is that they sing, and that they love.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


WHILE I listen to thy voice,
Chloris, I feel my life decay,
That powerful noise
Calls my fleeting soul away;
O suppress that magic sound,
Which destroys without a wound.
Peace, peace,
Chloris, peace,
Or singing die,
That together thou and I
To Heaven may go;
For all we know
Of what the Blessèd do above,
Is that they sing, and that they love.





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