Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE NOW, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD


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First Line: You will love me the day I lie dying
Last Line: At the coldness of death?
Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The


You will love me the day I lie dying.
Oh, love me then living,
While yet from a full heart replying,
I give to your giving.

What gain hath my lifetime of loving,
If you pass it all by,
To give me back treble my loving
In the hour I die?

All anguish, all maddest adoring
Will be vain in that day.
Though you knelt to me then with imploring,
What word could I say?

Oh, love me then now, that it quicken
My heart's failing breath!
Why wait, till to love is to sicken
At the coldness of death?





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