Love

Tystirus Complaining

by Samuel Pordage 1633–1691?

From Poems upon Several Occasions (1660)

Love

BReak sadded heart, burst thou with griefs complaint
Let thy laments
The hardest marble unto tears provoke:
Make flints to weep
Increase the deep
With drops expressed from that cruell stroke.

Wounded I lye, and suffer from that hand
That gave the wound
Unto my bleeding Soul. And from those eyes.
Light'nings proced
Which strike me dead
Nor w'thout she raise me can I ever rise.

Torment of cruell silence breeds this woe
I undergoe;
My tongue is fetter'd, and I dare not speak
Although my heart
Feels deadly smart
And swell'd with sorrow at the last must break.

But here's a joy which feeds my sadded mind
None hath divin'd
The cause of my sadnesse and distress,
First shall my Love
My murther prove
Before, to wrong her, I my Love confess.

MLA

Pordage, Samuel. “Tystirus Complaining.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pordage/22/.

Chicago

Pordage, Samuel. “Tystirus Complaining.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pordage/22/.

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