Love
To Delia
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Love
Say, my charmer, right or wrong,
Say it from your heart or tongue:
Be sincere, or else deceive,
Say you love—and I shall believe.
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Codex Note
Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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Cunningham, John. “To Delia.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cunningham_j/84/.
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