 | Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems by the late Thomas Russell |  |
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TO DELIA.
Since thought but adds to my regret,
To sleep my eyelids I resign,
If haply so I may forget
That first enchanting smile of thine:
To sleep my eyelids I resign,
If haply so I may forget
That first enchanting smile of thine:
In vain; the same enchanting smile
In every fleeting dream appears,
And still more surely to beguile
Each charm that haunts me waking wears:
In every fleeting dream appears,
And still more surely to beguile
Each charm that haunts me waking wears:
Ah then, in pity to my pain,
And all my doubts at once to smother,
Take back that one dear smile again,
Or oh! confirm it by another.
And all my doubts at once to smother,
Take back that one dear smile again,
Or oh! confirm it by another.
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