- The Heart Breaking
- Abraham Cowley
- Exported from Wikisource on 02/15/20
- It gave a piteous groan, and so it broke;
- In vain it something would have spoke:
- The love within too strong for't was,
- Like poison put into a Venice-glass.
- I thought that this some remedy might prove,
- But, oh, the mighty serpent Love,
- Cut by this chance in pieces small,
- In all still liv'd, and still it stung in all.
- And now, alas! each little broken part
- Feels the whole pain of all my heart:
- And every smallest corner still
- Lives with that torment which the whole did kill.
- Even so rude armies when the field they quit,
- And into several quarters get;
- Each troop does spoil and ruin more,
- Then all join'd in one body did before.
- How many Loves reign in my bosom now?
- How many loves, yet all of you?
- Thus have I chang'd with evil fate
- My Monarch-Love into a Tyrant-State.
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