 | Love-Lore (1895) |  |
LINGERING
Shall I for a woman pine
When she cares not to be mine?
Or, if she'll not have me her's,
Come with the other servitors?
Eager Love would droop and die,
Waiting for so slow reply.
When she cares not to be mine?
Or, if she'll not have me her's,
Come with the other servitors?
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Waiting for so slow reply.
I would be the first to woo,
But would have her ready too:
If she will not understand
Asking pressure of the hand,
Or the swift prayer of an eye,
Dullness take her! what care I?
But would have her ready too:
If she will not understand
Asking pressure of the hand,
Or the swift prayer of an eye,
Dullness take her! what care I?
Nay! and yet she must not haste:
Hurried having is disgraced.
But, as she sees me inclined,
Let her only know her mind,
To be prompt with her reply!
Doubtful love is apt to die.
Hurried having is disgraced.
But, as she sees me inclined,
Let her only know her mind,
To be prompt with her reply!
Doubtful love is apt to die.
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