Love
Songs
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (1900)
Love
Not from the whole wide world I chose thee,
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
For thou art the whole wide world to me.
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MLA
Gilder, Richard Watson. “Songs.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilder/12/.
Chicago
Gilder, Richard Watson. “Songs.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilder/12/.
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