StoryTitle("caps", "Hidden Flame") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I feed a flame within, which so torments me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That it both pains my heart, and yet contents me: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis such a pleasing smart, and I so love it, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That I had rather die than once remove it. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet he, for whom I grieve, shall never know it; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My tongue does not betray, nor my eyes show it. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a sigh, nor a tear, my pain discloses, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But they fall silently, like dew on roses. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus, to prevent my Love from being cruel, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart's the sacrifice, as 'tis the fuel; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And while I suffer this to give him quiet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My faith rewards my love, though he deny it. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On his eyes will I gaze, and there delight me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While I conceal my love no frown can fright me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To be more happy I dare not aspire, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor can I fall more low, mounting no higher.", "") ?>
Poet("John Dryden", "1631–1700") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>