No Cold Approach, no Altered Mien
The speaker recalls how a man made them happy and then broke their heart, without a cold approach, altered manner, or pause to give warning.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry · 39 words
First lines
No cold approach, no altered mien, / Just what would make suspicion start; / No pause the dire extremes between, / He made me blest-and broke my heart.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — A single rhymed stanza expresses the speaker's personal experience of happiness and heartbreak.
- Love Poetry — The speaker contrasts the happiness a man gave them with the heartbreak he caused.
Tags
heartbreak · lost love · sudden change · lyric poetry
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry
- Length: 39 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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