Give Me Leave to Rail at You

Read 'Give Me Leave to Rail at You' by 'John Wilmot' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

Give Me Leave to Rail at You by John Wilmot

 Give me leave to rail at you, -
I ask nothing but my due:
To call you false, and then to say
You shall not keep my heart a day.
But alas! against my will
I must be your captive still.
Ah! be kinder, then, for I
Cannot change, and would not die.

Kindness has resistless charms;
All besides but weakly move;
Fiercest anger it disarms,
And clips the wings of flying love.
Beauty does the heart invade,
Kindness only can persuade;
It gilds the lover's servile chain,
And makes the slave grow pleased again.

Form: Lyric

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