Love

Threatened Tears

by Francis Thompson 1859–1907

From Works (1913), vol. I

Love

DO not loose those rains thy wet
Eyes, my Fair, unsurely threat;
Do not, Sweet, do not so!
Thou canst not have a single woe,
But this sad and doubtful weather
Overcasts us both together.
In the aspect of those known eyes
My soul’s a captain weatherwise.
Ah me! what presages it sees
In those watery Hyades.

MLA

Thompson, Francis. “Threatened Tears.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/thompson/106/.

Chicago

Thompson, Francis. “Threatened Tears.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/thompson/106/.

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