Love
Since We Parted
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
Love
Since we parted yester eve,
I do love thee, love, believe,
Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer, -
One dream deeper, one night stronger,
One sun surer, - thus much more
Than I loved thee, love, before.
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MLA
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith). “Since We Parted.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lytton_r/8/.
Chicago
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith). “Since We Parted.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lytton_r/8/.
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