Love

If You Should Go

by Countee Cullen 1903–1946

From Color (1925)

Love

Love, leave me like the light,
The gently passing day;
We would not know, but for the night,
When it has slipped away.

Go quietly; a dream,
When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
Across the dreamer’s face.

MLA

Cullen, Countee. “If You Should Go.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/54/.

Chicago

Cullen, Countee. “If You Should Go.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cullen/54/.

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