Sweet tyrant Love,- but hear me now! <br />And cure while young this pleasing smart; <br />Or rather aid my trembling vow, <br />And teach me to reveal my heart. <br /> <br />Tell her, whose goodness is my bane, <br />Whose looks have smiled my peace away, <br />Oh! whisper how she gives me pain, <br />Whilst undesigning, frank, and gay. <br /> <br />'Tis not for common charms I sigh, <br />For what the vulgar beauty call; <br />'Tis not a cheek, a lip, an eye, <br />But 'tis the soul that lights them all! <br /> <br />For that I drop the tender tear, <br />For that I make this artless moan; <br />Oh! sigh it, Love! into her ear, <br />And make the bashful lover known.<br /><br />James Thomson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-love-amanda/
