My Heart is Turned Into a Wailing Child

Armenian Legends and Poems [1916] at sacred-texts.com

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MY HEART IS TURNED INTO A WAILING CHILD

BY N. KOUCHAK

(Fifteenth Century)

MY heart is turned into a wailing child,
     In vain with sweets I seek to still its cries;
Sweet love, it calls for thee in sobbings wild
     All day and night, with longing and with sighs.
          What solace can I give it?

I showed my eyes the fair ones of this earth
     And tried to please them--but I tried in vain.
Sweet love, for them all those were nothing worth--
     Thee--only thee my heart would have again.
          What solace can I give it?