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DEVASTATION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: O LOVE, YOU HAVE SHORN ME, AND RIFLED MY HEART
Last Line: THAT BREAKS AS THE PLAINT OF A SORROWING CHILD.
Subject(s): LOVE - COMPLAINTS;
O love, you have shorn me, and rifled my heart,
You have torn down the shrine from the innermost part,
And through it now rushes a grief, sadly-wild,
That breaks as the plaint of a sorrowing child.



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