Give Me Leave to Rail at You by John Wilmot
Wilmot read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poe...
Classic Poetry Aloud · Classic Poetry Aloud
January 17, 20081m 17s
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Wilmot read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/
Giving voice to the poetry of the past.
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Give Me Leave to Rail at You
by John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
Give me leave to rail at you, -
I ask nothing but my due:
To call you false, and then to say
You shall not keep my heart a day.
But alas! against my will
I must be your captive still.
Ah! be kinder, then, for I
Cannot change, and would not die.
Kindness has resistless charms;
All besides but weakly move;
Fiercest anger it disarms,
And clips the wings of flying love.
Beauty does the heart invade,
Kindness only can persuade;
It gilds the lover's servile chain,
And makes the slave grow pleased again.
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