Love
If You Should Go
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.
Cite this poem
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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