Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GIVEN HEART, by ABRAHAM COWLEY


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First Line: I wonder what those lovers mean, who say
Last Line: No drosse was there, to perish in the fire.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


1.

I Wonder what those Lovers mean, who say,
They have given their Hearts away.
Some good kind Lover tell me how;
For mine is but a Torment to me now.

2.

If so it be, one place both hearts contain,
For what do they complain?
What courtesie can Love do more
Then to joyne Hearts, that parted were before?

3.

Wo to her stubborn Heart, if once mine come
Into the selfe same roome;
'Twill tear and blow up all within,
Like a Granado shot into a Magazin.

4.

Then shall Love keep the ashes, and torn parts,
Of both our broken Hearts:
Shall out of both one new one make,
From her's, th' Allay, from mine, the Metall take.

5.

For of her heart he from the Flames will find
But little left behind;
Mine only will remain entire;
No drosse was there, to perish in the Fire.





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