Love
I
From The Heptalogia
Love
Love me and leave me; what love bids retrieve me? can June's fist
grasp May?
Leave me and love me; hopes eyed once above me like spring's sprouts
decay;
Fall as the snow falls, when summer leaves grow false--cards packed
for storm's play!
Cite this poem
MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “I.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/41/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “I.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/41/.
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