Love
Song: The way of love was thus
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (1915)
Love
The way of love was thus.
He was born one winter morn
With hands delicious,
And it was well with us.
Love came our quiet way,
Lit pride in us, and died in us,
All in a winter's day.
There is no more to say.
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Codex Note
Dated 1913 (?).
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Brooke, Rupert. “Song: The way of love was thus.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brooke/86/.
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Brooke, Rupert. “Song: The way of love was thus.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brooke/86/.
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