Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A FICKLE HEART, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL


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First Line: A fickle heart! Let subtler poets sing
Last Line: A fickle heart.
Subject(s): Hearts


AFICKLE heart! Let subtler poets sing
Of changeless love and all that kind of thing,
Of hearts in which a passion never dies --
My heart's as fickle as the summer skies
Across whose face the changing cloud-forms wing.

Unfailing loves unfailing troubles bring.
I love to touch on Cupid's harp each string,
Though each unto my questioning touch replies
A fickle heart.

So, 'twixt some thirty loves I'm wavering,
To each the same unstable vows I fling,
Reading the first glad gleam of love's surprise
In thirty pair of brown and azure eyes,
Finding in all the same thought answering
A fickle heart.





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