Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 28. LOVE AND THE FEAR OF POVERTY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 28. LOVE AND THE FEAR OF POVERTY, by                    
First Line: Love! She is a woman, and she can love
Last Line: Which once acknowledged was by man and wife.
Subject(s): Fear; Love; Poverty


Love! She is a woman, and she can love
All men save one, and with all men may dwell
Save he alone who fears the mailed glove,
The snorting charger and the battle smell;
The coward, who betrays love with a kiss,
Whose very glance turns sweetness into gall,
Who lives a life of wicked avarice
Which love espews,—she'll none of him at all.

It is not poverty's grim self alone
Which drives love out from the poor cottage door,
But fear of poverty which has been known
To wreck our hopes and lives forevermore,
And often has that fear been proved to be
Absurd and groundless yet too late in life
To call back love and its sweet purity
Which once acknowledged was by man and wife.





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