Love

To La Sanscœur

by William Caldwell Roscoe 1823–1859

From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)

Love

I know not how to call you light,
Since I myself was lighter;
Nor can you blame my changing plight
Who were the first inviter.

I know not which began to range
Since we were never constant;
And each when each began to change
Was found a weak remonstrant.

But this I know, the God of Love
Doth shake his hand against us,
And scorning says we ne'er did prove
True passion — but pretences.

MLA

Roscoe, William Caldwell. “To La Sanscœur.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/roscoe_wc/5/.

Chicago

Roscoe, William Caldwell. “To La Sanscœur.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/roscoe_wc/5/.

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