Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VI. Lovers | | “So sweet love seemed” | | Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
| | | SO sweet love seemed that April morn, | |
| When first we kissed beside the thorn, | |
| So strangely sweet, it was not strange | |
| We thought that love could never change. | |
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| But I can tell—let truth be told— | 5 |
| That love will change in growing old; | |
| Though day by day is naught to see, | |
| So delicate his motions be. | |
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| And in the end ’t will come to pass | |
| Quite to forget what once he was, | 10 |
| Nor even in fancy to recall | |
| The pleasure that was all in all. | |
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| His little spring, that sweet we found, | |
| So deep in summer floods is drowned, | |
| I wonder, bathed in joy complete, | 15 |
| How love so young could be so sweet. | | | | |
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