StoryTitle("caps", "Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love! ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, how sweet it is to love! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ah, how gay is young Desire! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what pleasing pains we prove ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When we first approach Love's fire! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pains of love be sweeter far", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than all other pleasures are. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sighs which are from lovers blown ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Do but gently heave the heart: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ev'n the tears they shed alone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cure, like trickling balm, their smart:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lovers, when they lose their breath, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bleed away in easy death. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love and Time with reverence use, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Treat them like a parting friend; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor the golden gifts refuse", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which in youth sincere they send: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For each year their price is more, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they less simple than before. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love, like spring-tides full and high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Swells in every youthful vein;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But each tide does less supply, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till they quite shrink in again: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If a flow in age appear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis but rain, and runs not clear.", "") ?>
Poet("John Dryden", "1631–1700") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>