Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY HEART, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS


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First Line: My heart is beating up and down
Last Line: And all the lamps are lit.
Subject(s): Hearts


My heart is beating up and down,
Is walking like some heavy feet.
My heart is going every day,
And I can hear it jump and beat.

At night before I go to sleep
I feel it beating in my head;
I hear it jumping in my neck
And in the pillow on my bed.

And then I make some little words
To go along and say with it --
The men are sailing home from Troy,
And all the lamps are lit.

The men are sailing home from Troy,
And all the lamps are lit.





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