Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. III. The Eighteenth Century: Addison to Blake
James Thomson (17001748)To Her I Love
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Ah! tell me, whither art thou fled;
To what delightful world above,
Appointed for the happy dead?
And sometimes share thy lover’s woe;
Where, void of thee, his cheerless home
Can now, alas! no comfort know?
While, under every well-known tree,
I to thy fancied shadow talk,
And every tear is full of thee;
Beside some sympathetic stream,
In slumber find a short relief,
Oh! visit thou my soothing dream!