Love
Time Past I Thought It Worth My While
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Time past I thought it worth my while
To hunt all day to catch a smile:
Now ladies do not smile, but laugh,
I like it not so much bv half;
And yet perhaps it might bo shown
A laugh is but a smile full-blown.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Time Past I Thought It Worth My While.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/511/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Time Past I Thought It Worth My While.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/511/.
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