Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

Absence

Richard Jago (1715–1781)

WITH leaden foot Time creeps along

While Delia is away:

With her, nor plaintive was the song,

Nor tedious was the day.

Ah, envious Power! reverse my doom;

Now double thy career,

Strain every nerve, stretch every plume,

And rest them when she’s here!