Love

Song: I pray thee send me back my heart

by Sir John Suckling 1609–1641

From Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, ed. George Gilfillan (1860)

Love

I pray thee send me back my heart,
Since I can not have thine,
For if from yours you will not part,
Why then shouldst thou have mine?

Yet now I think on 't, let it lie,
To find it were in vain;
For thou'st a thief in either eye
Would steal it back again.

Why should two hearts in one breast lie,
And yet not lodge together?
O love! where is thy sympathy,
If thus our breasts thou sever?

But love is such a mystery,
I cannot find it out;
For when I think I'm best resolved,
I then am in most doubt.

Then farewell care, and farewell woe,
I will no longer pine;
For I'll believe I have her heart
As much as she has mine.

MLA

Suckling, John. “Song: I pray thee send me back my heart.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/37/.

Chicago

Suckling, John. “Song: I pray thee send me back my heart.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/37/.

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