The Sick Lover

GUARINI

My sickly breath
Wasts in a double flame;
Whilst Love and Death
To my poor life lay claim;
The feavour in whose heat I melt
By her that causeth it not felt.

Thou who alone
Canst, yet wilt grant no ease,
Why slight'st thou one
To feed a new disease?
Unequal fair! the heart is thine;
Ah, why then should the pain be mine?
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Giovanni Battista Guarini
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