English poem
Oh, Bid Me Not
by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870)
Oh, bid me not, with smiling eye, Relate the cause of all my pain, For when you smile, alas! I sigh, And when you're said, I sigh again.
The smile, the sigh, from thee that flows, Must still a source of anguish be;— Unless the smile, to bless me, glows, Unless the sigh is breathed for me.