StoryTitle("caps", "How~Can the~Heart Forget~Her?") ?>
From Davison's Poetical Rhapsody (1602)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At her fair hands how have I grace entreated", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With prayers oft repeated!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet still my love is thwarted:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heart, let her go, for she'll not be converted—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Say, shall she go?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "O no, no, no, no, no!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is most fair, though she be marble-hearted.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How often have my sighs declared my anguish,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wherein I daily languish!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet still she doth procure it:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heart, let her go, for I can not endure it—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Say, shall she go?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "O no, no, no, no, no!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She gave the wound, and she alone must cure it.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But shall I still a true affection owe her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which prayers, sighs, tears do show her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And shall she still disdain me?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heart, let her go, if they no grace can gain me—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Say, shall she go?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "O no, no, no, no, no!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She made me hers, and hers she will retain me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if the love that hath and still doth burn me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No love at length return me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out of my thoughts I'll set her:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heart, let her go, O heart I pray thee, let her!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Say, shall she go?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "O no, no, no, no, no!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fix'd in the heart, how can the heart forget her?", "") ?>
Poet("Francis or Walter Davison (?)", "fl. early 17th century ") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>