| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Love’s Poor |
| | | Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) |
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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 lover’s 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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