Wednesday 8 June 2011

An anonymous Dutch poem from the 14th century


MY BREAST IS SORE AFFLICTED

My breast is sore afflicted,
My heart torments me so,
By all thy love inflicted
The wound does ever grow.
Where’er I turn, where’er I go,
By night, by day no rest is given;
Where’er I turn, where’er I go,
By thoughts of thee my heart is riven.

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