Batter my heart, three-person'd God
John Donne
1572 to 1631
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Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy;
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.
I, like an usurp'd town to another due,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,