Love

Love and Grief

by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872–1906

Love

Out of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day,
I locked young Love and threw the key away.
Grief, wandering widely, found the key,
And hastened with it, straightway, back to me,
With Love beside him. He unlocked the door
And bade Love enter with him there and stay.
And so the twain abide for evermore.

MLA

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “Love and Grief.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paul-laurence-dunbar/131/.

Chicago

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “Love and Grief.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paul-laurence-dunbar/131/.

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