The Bad wife/My heart with love is beating

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The Bad wife (1817)
My heart with love is beating
3280863The Bad wife — My heart with love is beating1817


MY HEART WITH LOVE IS BEATING.

My heart with love is beating,
Transported by those eyes;
Alas! there's no retreating!
In vain your captive flies.
Then why such anger cherish?
Why turn those eyes away?
For if they bid me perish,
Alas! I must obey.

Could deeds my heart discover,
Could valour gain those charms,
I'd prove myself your lover
Against the world in arms.
Proud fair, thus low before you
A prostrate warrior see,
Whose love, delight, and glory,
Are center'd all in thee.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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