A. Mary F. Robinson. Rispetto: I. Sara Teasdale, comp. 1917. The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women

Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917.

Rispetto: I

By A. Mary F. Robinson


WHAT good is there, ah me, what good in Love?
Since, even if you love me, we must part;
And since for either, an’ you cared enough,
There ’s but division and a broken heart?

And yet, God knows, to hear you say: My Dear!	5
I would lie down and stretch me on the bier.
And yet would I, to hear you say: My Own!
With mine own hands drag down the burial stone.