Love

On the Laugh of Madame d'Albret

by Leigh Hunt 1784–1859

Translated by Leigh Hunt (1857) · From The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1857)

Love

Yes, that fair neck, too beautiful by half.
Those eyes, that voice, that bloom, all do her honour :
Yet after all, that little giddy laugh
Is what, in my mind, sits the best upon her.

Good God ! 'twould make the very streets and ways
Through which she passes, burst into a pleasure !
Did melancholy come to mar my days.
And kill me in the lap of too much leisure.

No spell were wanting, from the dead to raise me,
But only that sweet laugh, wherewith she slays me.

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Leigh Hunt's translation from Clement Marot.

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Hunt, Leigh. “On the Laugh of Madame d'Albret.” Translated by Leigh Hunt. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hunt/94/.

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