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A BURNING BOSOM by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: SITTING IN THIS TEA-HOUSE
Last Line: NO, NO, A MUSTARD PLASTER.
Subject(s): HEARTS; PAIN; SUFFERING; MISERY;
SITTING in this tea-house,
Looking out on the clear cool water
And the silver lilies,
How I wish I could press a dripping lily-pad
On my burning bosom
To ease me of my smart.
A broken heart, you ask, Mar Quong?
No, no, a mustard plaster.



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