StoryTitle("caps", "Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Delia on the plain appears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Awed by a thousand tender fears ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would approach, but dare not move: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me, my heart, if this be love? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whene'er she speaks, my ravish'd ear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No other voice than hers can hear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No other wit but hers approve: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me, my heart, if this be love? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If she some other youth commend, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though I was once his fondest friend, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His instant enemy I prove: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me, my heart, if this be love? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she is absent, I no more ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Delight in all that pleased before— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The clearest spring, or shadiest grove: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me, my heart, if this be love? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When fond of power, of beauty vain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her nets she spread for every swain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I strove to hate, but vainly strove: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me, my heart, if this be love? ", "") ?>
Poet("George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton", "1709–1773") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>