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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 77. The Fart of Every Heart

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The Fart of Every Heart

 

If, when Don Cupid’s Dart

Doth wound a Heart.

We hide our Grief

And shun Relief;

The Smart increaseth on that Score;

For Wounds unsearched but rankle more.

 

Then if we whine, look pale,

And tell our Tale,

Men are in Pain

For us again;

So neither speaking doth become

The Lovers State, nor being dumb.

 

When this I do descry,

Then thus think I,

Love is the Fart

Of every Heart:

It pains a Man when ‘tis kept close,

And others does offend, when ‘tis let loose.

—John Suckling, [i]

1640

 

 

 

 

[i] “The Fart of Every Heart” John Suckling The Works of Sir John Suckling (London 1709), ps. 3-4

https://books.google.com/books?pg=PA3&dq=%22john+suckling%22+sonnet+II&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&id=XToJAAAAQAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false

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32 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

That’s fantastic. I read it through twice, my grin growing through the scanning. It’s absolutely true, and a very apt metaphor. 

It's rare I post two poems by the same author in a row for the Mirror, but there's something unique about Suckling's work. A blend of melancholy with his gaiety that makes him memorable and a stand-out.

As always, my friend, thanks for reading and commenting

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