Love
A Lyric
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Stevenson (1912)
LoveNature
There's nae lark loves the lift, my dear,
There's nae ship loves the sea,
There's nae bee loves the heather-bells,
That loves as I love thee, my love,
That loves as I love thee.
The whin shines fair upon the fell,
The blithe broom on the lea:
The muirside wind is merry at heart:
It's a' for love of thee, my love,
It's a' for love of thee.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “A Lyric.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/812/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “A Lyric.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/812/.
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