Prompt: A poem on unrequited love
Bonnie Lass
From Bleeding Heart: Poems and Cries of Another Kind,
by Drewby Gallantsmoore* (publisher and date unknown)
Bonnie Lass has done once more
Gone and ripped my heart out
With sweet caress; from my breast
She stole it evermore
Bonnie Lass has gone and passed
My love cries e'er deftly
Instead to swoon, moon, and croon
O'er a sailor at mast
Bonnie Lass, it grieves my heart
To watch you pine for him
Yet I remain true for you
Till love won't keep us part
*Drewby Gallantsmoore was a man with notable social problems. Though details of his death are unknown, literary tradition believes he died of a broken heart. Or a toothy cow. Either way, it wasn't a nice way to go.
