Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Joanna Baillie (17621851)Song: They who may tell loves wistful tale
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Of half its cares are lightened;
Their bark is tacking to the gale,
The severed cloud is brightened.
Beneath the willows lurking,
The deeper that it hath no sound
To tell its ceaseless working.
I feel its inward token;
I feel this misery will not last,
Yet last till thou art broken.