Poem by Amy Levy

Oh, Is It Love?

O is it Love or is it Fame,
This thing for which I sigh?
Or has it then no earthly name
For men to call it by?

I know not what can ease my pains,
Nor what it is I wish;
The passion at my heart-strings strains
Like a tiger in a leash.

1. The Sick Man and the Nightingale
2. The First Extra
3. Translated from Geibel
4. A London Plane-Tree
5. In the Mile End Road

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