Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DEVASTATION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON



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First Line: O love, you have shorn me, and rifled my heart
Last Line: That breaks as the plaint of a sorrowing child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


O love, you have shorn me, and rifled my heart,
You have torn down the shrine from the innermost part,
And through it now rushes a grief, sadly-wild,
That breaks as the plaint of a sorrowing child.





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