Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
IV. Wooing and WinningI prithee send me back my heart
Sir John Suckling (16091642)I
Since I cannot have thine;
For if from yours you will not part,
Why then shouldst thou have mine?
To find it were in vain;
For thou ’st a thief in either eye
Would steal it back again.
And yet not lodge together?
O Love! where is thy sympathy
If thus our breasts thou sever?
I cannot find it out;
For when I think I ’m best resolved
I then am most in doubt.
I will no longer pine;
For I ’ll believe I have her heart
As much as she has mine.