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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S POOR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poet's Biography
First Line: Yea, love, I know, and I would have it thus
Last Line: T is only, love, because we are so poor.
Subject(s): Poverty
First Line: Yea, love, I know, and I would have it thus
Last Line: T is only, love, because we are so poor.
Subject(s): Poverty
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,
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,
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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