Love

O Do Not Love Too Long

by W. B. Yeats 1865–1939

From In the Seven Woods (1903)

Love

Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.

All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other’s,
We were so much at one.

But, O in a minute she changed—
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.

MLA

Yeats, W. B. “O Do Not Love Too Long.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/215/.

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Yeats, W. B. “O Do Not Love Too Long.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/215/.

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