Love
One Way of Trusting
From An American Anthology (1900)
Love
Not trust you, dear? Nay, 't is not true.
As sailors trust the shifting sea
From day to day, so I trust you.
They know how smooth the sea can be;
And well they know its treachery
When tempests blow; yet forth they thrust
Their ships, as in security.
They trust it, dear, because they must.
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MLA
Kimball, Hannah Parker. “One Way of Trusting.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kimball_hp/2/.
Chicago
Kimball, Hannah Parker. “One Way of Trusting.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kimball_hp/2/.
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