Love
A Time Will Come When Absence, Grief, and Years
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
A time will come when absence, grief, and years,
Shall change the form and voice that please you now,
When you perplext shall ask, " And fell my tears
Into his bosom? breath'd I there my vow? "
It must be so, Ianthe! but to think
Malignant Tate should also threaten you,
Would make my heart, now vainly buoyant, sink:
Believe it not: 'tis what I'll never do.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Time Will Come When Absence, Grief, and Years.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/319/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Time Will Come When Absence, Grief, and Years.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/319/.
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