Love
No Answer (II)
From The Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens (1870)
Love
Winds are loud and you are dumb,
Take my love, for love will come,
Love will come but once a life.
Winds are loud and winds will pass!
Spring is here with leaf and grass:
Take my love and be my wife.
After-loves of maids and men
Are but dainties drest again:
Love me now, you'll love me then:
Love can love but once a life.
Cite this poem
MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “No Answer (II).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/350/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “No Answer (II).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/350/.
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