O WHO has found! For I have lost A thing yt cost Far more then India's worth, a Thing Which if sinceer & sound, Might be a present for a Mighty King. It was, (had I An Heart to break, This Thought would make The rupture strait; but I have none:) It was, oh heare my Crie Deare Freinds, it was my Heart, my Heart is gone. A Month agoe, Or therabout It slipped out Whilst I went carelesse on my way. But where it dropt, or how, Alas regardlesse wretch, I cannot say. Sometimes mine Eare, Sometimes mine Eye Lets her passe by. Sometimes a Crowd of idle words Drove without wit or feare Safe Convoy to a wandring Heart affords. Sometime my Watch But loosely set Doth easily let Her steale away: whilst idle I Melt in soft ease, & catch At gewgaw Nothings as they flutter by. A thousand wayes Alas I see Where nimble Shee Might make escape: each sin I doe An open passage layes, And by that Mouth invites ye soule to goe. O who has found! The Thing, alas, Unworthy was The taking up: Sweet pleasures say, When you did Mee surround, Bore your soft Streame my weaker Heart away? Say needlesse Cares Did your wild Number My Heart incumber, And made her carelesse of Her selfe, Whilst vain unmanly feares Threw her away upon Lifes sordid Pelfe? How shall I find My Heart againe, Who, though most faine Yet have no Heart to seek that Prize! Thus one already blind Desires to seek his Sight, but wants his Eyes. On Thee alone Who art @3all Eye@1 My hopes rely. If Thou wilt find this Heart for Mee, Ile give it unto none Henceforth (& tis a bargaine) but to Thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PROTESTS (AFTER A PAINTING BY HUGO BALLIN) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER MAUBERLEY: 5. MEDALLION by EZRA POUND AMORETTI: 15 by EDMUND SPENSER THE ENAMEL GIRL by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD AT ELLIS ISLAND by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS AN ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE LAST LULLABY by HENRY BATAILLE |