Poems (Osgood)/The Heart's Answer

by Frances Sargent Osgood

THE HEART'S ANSWER

a song.

"Speak—speak to me, darling!
 Hide thy sweet blush in my breast;
Breathe but one dear little murmur;
 Thine eyes shall tell me the rest.

Say only thou wilt be mine, love;
 Whisper me one little—"Yes!"
Ah! thou art silent,—thy soul, love,
 Feels not my pleading caress!"

Low as the sigh of a flower,
 Heard in the stillness of night,
Came the fond tones of the maiden,
 Trembling with fear and delight,—

"Ask not the word from my lips, love;
 Need'st thou so idle a sign!
Dost thou not hear my heart answer,
 Thus beating softly on thine?"