Give me leave to rail at you (I ask nothing but my due): To call you false, and then to say You shall not keep my heart a day. But, alas! against my will, I must be your captive still. Ah! Be kinder, then, for I Cannot change, and would not die. Kindness has resistless charms; All besides but weakly move; Fiercest anger it disarms And clips the wings of flying love. Beauty does the heart invade, Kindness only can persuade; It gilds the lover's servile chain And makes the slave grow pleased and vain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY HEART IS HEAVY by SARA TEASDALE A RUNNABLE STAG by JOHN DAVIDSON UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS by JOHN DRYDEN TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 2. THE KNIGHT by RAINER MARIA RILKE THE KNITTING by MARGARET BARBER |