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NEW LOVE AND OLD by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IN MY HEART THE OLD LOVE
Last Line: OR TO YOU?
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF;

In my heart the old love
Struggled with the new;
It was ghostly waking
All night through.

Dear things, kind things,
That my old love said,
Ranged themselves reproachfully
Round my bed.

But I could not heed them,
For I seemed to see
The eyes of my new love
Fixed on me.

Old love, old love,
How can I be true?
Shall I be faithless to myself
Or to you?




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