[poetry advent calendar] yesterday's poem

[angevin2]

Because we haven't had enough flatulence metaphors.

Love's Offence
Sir John Suckling

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 lover's 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 doth offend, when 'tis let loose.