Love
Give Me the Light Heart
From Embers (1895)
Love
Give, me the light heart, Heaven above!
Give me the hand of a friend,
Give me one high fine spirit to love,
I’ll abide my fate to the end:
I will help where I can, I will cherish my own,
Nor walk the steep way of the world alone.
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MLA
Parker, Gilbert. “Give Me the Light Heart.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/parker_g/92/.
Chicago
Parker, Gilbert. “Give Me the Light Heart.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/parker_g/92/.
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