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SONG, by GEORGE LYTTELTON Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy hours are almost past Last Line: To die, and think you mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Lyttleton Of Frankley, 1st Baron; George, First Lord Of Lyttleton Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love | ||||||||
The heavy hours are almost past That part my love and me: My longing eyes may hope at last Their only wish to see. But how, my Delia, will you meet The man you've lost so long? Will love in all your pulses beat, And tremble on your tongue? Will you in every look declare Your heart is still the same; And heal each idly-anxious care Our fears in absence frame? Thus, Delia, thus I paint the scene, When shortly we shall meet; And try what yet remains between Of loitering time to cheat. But if the dream that soothes my mind Shall false and groundless prove; If I am doomed at length to find You have forgot to love; All I of Venus ask, is this; No more to let us join: But grant me here the flattering bliss, To die, and think you mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY WIFE by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP by MARGARET ATWOOD IN THE MONTH OF MAY by ROBERT BLY |
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