Love
My love was warm
From New Poems (1918)
Love
MY love was warm; for that I crossed
The mountains and the sea,
Nor counted that endeavour lost
That gave my love to me.
If that indeed were love at all,
As still, my love, I trow,
By what dear name am I to call
The bond that holds me now
Cite this poem
MLA
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “My love was warm.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/229/.
Chicago
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “My love was warm.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/229/.
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