Classic Poem

1

The inward tear the silent sigh
The look spoke loud in beauties eye
Strikes like Thor's hammer i' the shock
Though marble bosoms only mock

2

If hidden tears and unheard sighs
Speak nothing — there no heart replies
If signs like these are passed unknown
Then love with two was never known

3

The maid that love in secret keeps
The eye that in the bosom weeps
The cheek that burns up fire to see
Her speak to others though it bee

4

Cold sweats that chill the brow of toil
To see her on another smile
Is love that boils through every vein
But owns no voices to explain

5

A hidden mystery of the breast
A heart that sleeps without its rest
A word that's ever on the tongue
And keeps it silent all day long

6

A wish that aches to have its way
Yet keeps it prisoner day by day
A thought for one and one alone
That petrifies the heart to stone

7

Love flashes in the human eye
And beatings of the heart reply
Love tingles in the virgin blood
Of woman in her maidenhood

8

For man those snowy hills do swell
For man those smiles do secrets tell
For man sweet womans love was born
Then who would beauties glances scorn