Love
To One Who Was Cruel
From Copper Sun (1927)
Love
The wound you gave
Will not abide,
Nor what you crave
Be gratified.
Time with deft finger
Probing far,
Will let linger
No sign or scar.
Only a line like snow,
So faint, so thin,
Folks will not know
A wound has been.
Cite this poem
MLA
Cullen, Countee. “To One Who Was Cruel.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/141/.
Chicago
Cullen, Countee. “To One Who Was Cruel.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/141/.
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