Love
The Clue
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Love
Oh, frame some little word for me
None else shall ever hear or see, —
Something my soul can call her own,
When suddenly she feels alone;
Something that she can take away
When God shall draw the veil of clay;
Something that thou wilt know her by
Among the billions of the sky;
Something no other soul will fit
Save hers for whom thou makest it.
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Bates, Charlotte Fiske. “The Clue.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bates_cf/1/.
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Bates, Charlotte Fiske. “The Clue.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bates_cf/1/.
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