Love

Song

by Frances Sargent Osgood 1811–1850

From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)

Love

Your heart is a music-box, dearest!
With exquisite tunes at command,
Of melody sweetest and clearest,
If tried by a delicate hand;
But its workmanship, love, is so fine,
At a single rude touch it would break;
Then, oh! be the magic key mine,
Its fairy-like whispers to wake.

And there's one little tune it can play,
That I fancy all others above, —
You learned it of Cupid one day, —
It begins with and ends with "I love!"
"I love!"
My heart echoes to it "I love!"

MLA

Osgood, Frances Sargent. “Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/osgood_fs/4/.

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Osgood, Frances Sargent. “Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/osgood_fs/4/.

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