Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (18331908). A Victorian Anthology, 18371895. 1895. |
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Loves Poor |
| Richard Le Gallienne (18661947) |
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YEA, love, I know, and I would have it thus; | |
I know that not for us | |
Is springtide Passion with his fire and flowers, | |
I know this love of ours | |
Lives not, nor yet may live, | 5 |
By the dear food that lips and hands can give. | |
Not, love, that we in some high dream despise | |
The common lovers common Paradise; | |
Ah, God, if Thou and I | |
But one short hour their blessedness might try, | 10 |
How could we poor ones teach | |
Those happy ones who half forget them rich: | |
For if we thus endure, | |
T is only, love, because we are so poor. | |
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