Love
Love is Cruel, Love is Sweet
From Poetical Works (1916): Lyrical Poems: Early Poems
Love
Love is cruel, love is sweet, —
Cruel, sweet.
Lovers sigh till lovers meet,
Sigh and meet —
Sigh and meet, and sigh again —
Cruel sweet ! O sweetest pain !
Love is blind — but love is sly,
Blind and sly.
Thoughts are bold, but words are shy-
Bold and shy —
Bold and shy, and bold again —
Sweet is boldness, — shyness pain.
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MacDonagh, Thomas. “Love is Cruel, Love is Sweet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/macdonagh/47/.
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MacDonagh, Thomas. “Love is Cruel, Love is Sweet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/macdonagh/47/.
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