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Poem by Henry Kirke White


To Love


Why should I blush to own I love?
'Tis Love that rules the realms above.
Why should I blush to say to all,
That Virtue holds my heart in thrall?

Why should I seek the thickest shade,
Lest Love's dear secret be betray'd?
Why the stern brow deceitful move,
When I am languishing with love?

Is it weakness thus to dwell
On passion that I dare not tell?
Such weakness I would ever prove;
'Tis painful, though 'tis sweet to love.



Henry Kirke White


Henry Kirke White's other poems:
  1. Description of a Summer’s Eve
  2. Lines Written in Wilford Churchyard on Recovery from Sickness
  3. I'm Pleased and Yet I'm Sad
  4. My Own Character
  5. The Prostitute


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester To Love ("O Love! how cold and slow to take my Part?")

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