Love
Love—what is love?
From New Poems (1918)
Love
LOVE—what is love? A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.
Life—what is life? Upon a moorland bare
To see love coming and see love depart.
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MLA
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Love—what is love?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/197/.
Chicago
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Love—what is love?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/197/.
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