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The Broken Heart
He is stark mad, who ever says,
That he hath been in love an hour,
Yet not that love so soon decays,
But that it can ten in less space devour;
Who will believe me, if I swear
That I have had the plague a year ?
Who would not laugh at me, if I should say,
I saw a flask of powder burn a day ?
Ah, what trifle is a heart,
If once into Loves hands it come!
All other griefs allow a part
To other griefs, and ask themselves but some,
They come to us, but us Love draws,
He swallows us, and never chaws:
By him, as by chain-shot, whole ranks do die,
He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry....
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Poems by John Donne
The Busy Heart
Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted,
I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not rend.
(O heart, I do not dare go empty-hearted)
I'll think of Love in books, Love without end;
Women with child, content; and old men sleeping;
And wet strong ploughlands, scarred for certain grain;
And babes that weep, and so forget their weeping;
And the young heavens, forgetful after rain;
And evening hush, broken by homing wings;
And Song's nobility, and Wisdom holy,
That live, we dead. I would think of a thousand things,
Lovely and durable, and taste them slowly,
One after one, like tasting a sweet food.
I have need to busy my heart with quietude.
Poems by Rupert Brooke
The Desire Of The Heart
Heart, is there anything to desire?
Feet, is there anywhere to go?
A way for the feet, where the winds blow
The dust: from the heart, and a way for the heart
Where the kindness of love shall never tire,
Nor the feet be tired with the length of the way?
Shall the heart Stay and the feet stay,
And the voice of the wind crying: Depart?
O my heart, O my feet, rest, be at rest!
They are tired, they are tired of wandering.
O my heart, O my feet, is there anything
Worth the desire out of all that is?
Wandering ones, quiet is best
Cover the thoughts and the voices deep
And let me bind my feet with a sleep.
And blind my heart with a sleepy kiss!
Poems by Arthur Symons
The Disobedient Heart
Stern Power, whose heavy hand I feel,
Whose infinite, world--urging force,
Nor silent pain nor strong appeal
Persuades from its imperious course,
Idly I strive with thee; 'tis thou
Rul'st in this world of thwarted will!
To thine omnipotence I bow;
And dare to disobey thee still.
Poems by Robert Laurence Binyon
The Echo In The Heart
It's little I can tell
About the birds in books;
And yet I know them well,
By their music and their looks:
When May comes down the lane,
Her airy lovers throng
To welcome her with song,
And follow in her train:
Each minstrel weaves his part
In that wild-flowery strain,
And I know them all again
By their echo in my heart.
It's little that I care
About my darling's place
In books of beauty rare,
Or heraldries of race:
For when she steps in view,...
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Poems by Henry Van Dyke
The Full Heart
If I could sing the song of her
Who makes my heart to sing;
If I could catch the words to match
Its secret blossoming;
My song should be a heaven of sound
Thrilled through a single note,--
The world of light that's infinite
In one flower's honey--throat!
A fountain diamonded in air,
Earth--blessing dews at night,
A dancing child, flames lovely--wild,
Should not so much delight....
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Poems by Robert Laurence Binyon
The Gardener LXI: Peace, My Heart
Peace, my heart, let the time for
the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain
into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end
in the folding of the wings over the
nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be
gentle like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a
moment, and say your last words in
silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp
to light you on your way.
Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
The Handsome Heart
'But tell me, child, your choice; what shall I buy
You?''Father, what you buy me I like best.'
With the sweetest air that said, still plied and pressed,
He swung to his first poised purport of reply.
What the heart is! which, like carriers let fly
Doff darkness, homing nature knows the rest
To its own fine function, wild and self-instressed,
Falls light as ten years long taught how to and why.
Mannerly-hearted! more than handsome face
Beauty's bearing or muse of mounting vein,
All, in this case, bathed in high hallowing grace
Of heaven what boon to buy you, boy, or gain
Not granted?Only
O on that path you pace
Run all your race, O brace sterner that strain!
Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Heart
Why are you land to me now,
You who were once so unkind?
I will tell you why you are kind to me now.
Now you have taken away
All that I had, you are land;
You have taken the dreams of my heart away,
I had nothing, only my dreams:
You have found them, hid in my heart;
You have taken nothing, only my dreams.
You are kind to me now I am poor,
I have nothing left in my heart,
You are kind to me only because I am poor.
Poems by Arthur Symons
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