Love
Sad Truth
From The Singing Leaves (1903)
Love
Truth I tell with heavy heart,
To another one,
Give me sweetness for your smart,
When sad time is done.
Then may I be clear again,
Love without disguise;
Since I have to bear, till then,
Dark of hostile eyes.
Bitter shall be sweet some day.
Ah, but that is far away!
I must bind my heart and say:
Bitter now, but sweet some day.
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MLA
Peabody, Josephine Preston. “Sad Truth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/5/.
Chicago
Peabody, Josephine Preston. “Sad Truth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peabody/5/.
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