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ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE2 by JOHN DRYDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOW UNHAPPY A LOVER AM I
Last Line: FOR THE SOULS TO MEET CLOSER ABOVE.
Subject(s): DEATH; FATE; HOPE; LOVE - LOSS OF; NYMPHS; DEAD, THE; DESTINY; OPTIMISM;
1

@3He@1. How unhappy a Lover am I
While I sigh for my @3Phillis@1 in vain;
All my Hopes of Delight
Are another man's Right,
Who is happy while I am in pain!

2

@3She@1. Since her Honour allows no Relief,
But to pity the pains which you bear,
'Tis the best of your Fate,
(In a hopeless Estate,)
To give o're and betimes to despair.

3

@3He@1. I have try'd the false Med'cine in vain;
For I wish what I hope not to win:
From without, my desire
Has no Food to its Fire,
But it burns and consumes me within.

4

@3She@1. Yet at least 'tis a pleasure to know
That you are not unhappy alone:
For the Nymph you adore
Is as wretched and more,
And accounts all your suff'rings her own.

5

@3He@1. O ye Gods, let me suffer for both;
At the Feet of my @3Phillis@1 I'le lye:
I'll resign up my Breath,
And take Pleasure in Death, To be pity'd by her when I dye.

6

@3She@1. What her Honour deny'd you in Life
In her Death she will give to your Love:
Such a Flame as is true
After Fate will renew,
For the Souls to meet closer above.



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