Lizette Woodworth Reese. Love Came Back at Fall o' Dew. 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.

Love Came Back at Fall o’ Dew

By Lizette Woodworth Reese


LOVE came back at fall o’ dew,
Playing his old part;
But I had a word or two
That would break his heart.

“He who comes at candle-light,	5
That should come before,
Must betake him to the night
From a barrèd door.”

This the word that made us part
In the fall o’ dew;	10
This the word that brake his heart—
Yet it brake mine, too.