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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: ONE MORE BRUISED HEART, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poet's Biography First Line: One more bruised heart laid bare! One victim more! Last Line: I cannot cure; I may in part express. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness | |||
ONE more bruised heart laid bare! one victim more! One more wail heard! Oh, is there never end Of all these passionate agonies, that rend Young hopes to tatters through enslavements sore? So long, pale child, your patient spirit bore Its wrong in secret, ere you sought a friend; And yet, what love of mine can ever mend Again for you the veil your tyrant tore? Oh, there are woes too bitter to be shown! Oh, there are tears too burning to be seen! Yet purest sympathy, select and clean, May feel the agony its very own. Sweet slave-child, whom your voiceless griefs oppress, I cannot cure; I may in part express. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS EGOISME A DEUX' by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |
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