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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DESPAIRING LOVER, by WILLIAM HAMILTON OF BANGOUR Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the poor shepherd's mournful fate Last Line: And die in sight of heaven. Subject(s): Love - Complaints | |||
AH, the poor shepherd's mournful fate, When doom'd to love, and doom'd to languish, To bear the scornful fair one's hate, Nor dare disclose his anguish. Yet eager looks and dying sighs, My secret soul discover; While rapture trembling through mine eyes, Reveals how much I love her. The tender glance, the reddening cheek O'erspread with rising blushes, A thousand various ways they speak, A thousand various wishes. For O! that form so heavenly fair, Those languid eyes so sweetly smiling, That artless blush and modest air, So fatally beguiling! The every look and every grace, So charm where'er I view thee; Till death o'ertake me in the chace, Still will my hopes pursue thee: Then when my tedious hours are past, Be this last blessing given, Low at thy feet to breathe my last, And die in sight of heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI |
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