Love
Upon a Friend Who Had a Pain in His Left Side
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Love
LAY not the Pain, so near your heart,
On chance, or on disease,
So sensible, so nice a smart.
Is from no cause like these.
Your Friends, at last, the truth have found,
Howe'er you tell your story,
'Twas Celia's eyes that gave the Wound,
And they shall have the Glory.
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MLA
Prior, Matthew. “Upon a Friend Who Had a Pain in His Left Side.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/197/.
Chicago
Prior, Matthew. “Upon a Friend Who Had a Pain in His Left Side.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/197/.
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