Gentle breath of melting sorrow

First Line Gentle breath of melting sorrow
Author Sarah Wesley
Description

Ode [Love].

Transcribed from Folger M.a. 182 p. 61. 

Transcription

Gentle breath of melting sorrow,

Pleasure doth thy garment borrow!

Love on thee is silent hung,

Silence takes from thee a tongue!

Pleasing sweet without a word,

Gently felt, and softly heard,

Never seen, tho' known to be

Child of Sensibility!

Thou alike to rapture free,

Rapture sweetly speaks in thee,

Child of Sensibility!