THE WOUNDED HEART.
by Robert Herrick


COME bring your sampler, and with art
          Draw in't a wounded heart
          And dropping here and there :
Not that I think that any dart
          Can make your's bleed a tear,
          Or pierce it anywhere ;
Yet do it to this end : that I
                           May by
                      This secret see,
              Though you can make
That heart to bleed, yours ne'er will ache
                           For me.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 10.
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