Love
Flow, Precious Tears! Thus Shall My Rival Know
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Flow, precious tears! thus shall my rival know
For me, not him, ye flow.
Stay, precious tears! ah stay! this jealous heart
Would hid you flow apart,
Lest he should see you rising o'er the brim,
And hope you rise for him.
Your secret cells, while he is present, keep,
Nor, tho' I'm absent, weep.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Flow, Precious Tears! Thus Shall My Rival Know.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/297/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Flow, Precious Tears! Thus Shall My Rival Know.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/297/.
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