Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LADY MINE, by HERBERT EDWIN CLARKE


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LADY MINE, by                    
First Line: Lady mine, most fair thou art
Last Line: Or thy heart is like thy head.
Subject(s): Courtship


LADY mine, most fair thou art
With youth's gold and white and red;
'Tis a pity that thy heart
Is so much harder than thy head.

This has stayed my kisses oft,
This from all thy charms debarr'd,
That thy head is strangely soft,
While thy heart is strangely hard.

Nothing had kept us apart --
I had loved thee, I had wed --
Hadst thou had a softer heart
Or a harder head.

But I think I'll bear Love's smart
Till the wound has healed and fled,
Or thy head is like thy heart,
Or thy heart is like thy head.





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