Love
When Love is Over
From India's Love Lyrics (The Garden of Kama, 1901)
Love
Only in August my heart was aflame,
Catching the scent of your Wind-stirred hair,
Now, though you spread it to soften my sleep
Through the night, I should hardly care.
Only last August I drank that water
Because it had chanced to cool your hands;
When love is over, how little of love
Even the lover understands!
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Hope, Laurence. “When Love is Over.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hope/19/.
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Hope, Laurence. “When Love is Over.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hope/19/.
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