The Wounded Heart Poem by Robert Herrick

The Wounded Heart

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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 any where;
Yet do it to this end,--that I
May by
This secret see,
Though you can make
That heart to bleed, your's ne'er will ache
For me,

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Gordon M. Poole 23 October 2018

This is a visual poem. As Giovanni Pozzi has pointed out, if you center the lasf five lines, they bleed a tear.

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