Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY LOVE WAS WARM; FOR THAT I CROSSED, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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Last Line: The bond that holds me now?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of


My love was warm; for that I crossed
The mountains and the sea,
Nor counted that endeavour lost
That gave my love to me.

If that indeed were love at all,
As still, my love, I trow,
By what dear name am I to call
The bond that holds me now?





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