Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE UNCHANGED, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)


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First Line: My love, my love, if I were old
Last Line: In years of grief and sadness, love shall be love!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


MY love, my love, if I were old,
My body bent, my blood grown cold,
With thin white hairs upon my brow.
Say wouldst thou think of me as now?
Wouldst thou cling to me still,
As down life's sloping hill
We came at last through the unresting years?
Art thou prepared for tears,
For time's sure-coming losses,
For life's despites and crosses,
My love, my love?

Ah! brief our little, little day;
Ah! years that fleet so fast away;
Before our summer scarce begun,
Look, spring and blossom-tide are done!
When all things hasten past,
How should love only last?
How should our souls alone unchanged remain? --
Come pleasure or come pain,
In days of joy and gladness,
In years of grief and sadness, Love shall be love!





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