Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 3 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Absence

With leaden foot Time creeps along

While Delia is away:

With her, nor plaintive was the song,

Nor tedious was the day.


Ah, envious Pow'r! reverse my doom;

Now double thy career,

Strain ev'ry nerve, stretch ev'ry plume,

And rest them when she's here!

— Richard Jago
1715–1781   


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