Love
Love and Duty
From The Angel in the House
Love
Anne lived so truly from above,
She was so gentle and so good,
That duty bade me fall in love,
And ‘but for that,’ thought I, ‘I should!’
I worshipp’d Kate with all my will,
In idle moods you seem to see
A noble spirit in a hill,
A human touch about a tree.
Cite this poem
MLA
Patmore, Coventry. “Love and Duty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/patmore/123/.
Chicago
Patmore, Coventry. “Love and Duty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/patmore/123/.
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