Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
Lord de Tabley (John Byrne Leicester Warren) (18351895)Sonnet: My heart is vext with this fantastic fear
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Had I been born too soon or far away,
Then had I never known thy beauty, dear,
And thou hadst spent on others all thy May.
Faint at imagined loss of such dear prize;
I pore upon the slender chance again,
That taught me all the meaning of those eyes,
Hadst never sunn’d beneath this maiden’s glance
Another Love thou hadst as madly sung,
For Love is certain but the loved one chance.
But question little, Love, when thou art near.