Revenge
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1802 to 1838
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Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreathed hair,
And gaze upon ______ smile;
Seem as you drank the very air
Her ______ perfumed the while:
And wake for her the gifted line,
That wild and witching lay,
And swear your heart ______ as a shrine,
That only owns her sway.
’Tis well: I am revenged at last,—
Mark you that ______ cheek,—
The eye averted as you pass’d,
Spoke ______ than words could speak.
Ay, now by all the ______ tears
That I have shed for thee,—
The ______ doubts, the burning fears,—
Avenged they well may be—
By the nights pass’d in sleepless care,
The days ______ endless woe;
All that you taught my heart to bear,
All that yourself will know.
I would not wish ______ see you laid
Within an early tomb;
I should ______ how you betray’d,
And only weep your doom:
But ______ is fitting punishment,
To live and love in vain,—
Oh my wrung heart, be thou content,
And feed ______ his pain.
Go thou and watch her lightest sigh,—
Thine own it will not be;
And bask beneath ______ sunny eye,—
It will not turn on thee.
’Tis well: the rack, the chain, the wheel,
Far better ______ thou proved;
Ev’n I could almost pity feel,
For ______ art not beloved.