Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917. | | | | “Many in Aftertimes Will Say” | | By Christina Rossetti |
| | | MANY in aftertimes will say of you, | |
| “He loved her”—while of me what will they say? | |
| Not that I loved you more than just in play, | |
| For fashion’s sake as idle women do. | |
| Even let them prate; who know not what we knew | 5 |
| Of love and parting in exceeding pain, | |
| Of parting hopeless here to meet again, | |
| Hopeless on earth, and heaven is out of view. | |
| But by my heart of love laid bare to you, | |
| My love that you can make not void nor vain, | 10 |
| Love that foregoes you but to claim anew | |
| Beyond this passage of the gate of death, | |
| I charge you at the Judgment make it plain | |
| My love of you was life and not a breath. | | | | |
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