Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IX. Tragedy: Humor. 1904. | | | | Humorous Poems: II. Miscellaneous | | A Life’s Love | | Anonymous |
| | | I LOVED him in my dawning years— | |
| Far years, divinely dim; | |
| My blithest smiles, my saddest tears, | |
| Were evermore for him. | |
| My dreaming when the day began, | 5 |
| The latest thought I had, | |
| Was still some little loving plan | |
| To make my darling glad. | |
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| They deemed he lacked the conquering wiles, | |
| That other children wear; | 10 |
| To me his face, in frowns or smiles, | |
| Was never aught but fair. | |
| They said that self was all his goal, | |
| He knew no thought beyond; | |
| To me, I know, no living soul | 15 |
| Was half so true and fond. | |
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| In love’s eclipse, in friendship’s dearth, | |
| In grief and feud and bale, | |
| My heart has learnt the sacred worth | |
| Of one that cannot fail; | 20 |
| And come what must, and come what may, | |
| Nor power, nor praise, nor pelf, | |
| Shall lure my faith from thee to stray. | |
| My sweet, my own—Myself. | | | | |
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