Love Is So Sweet
Dublin Core
Title
Love Is So Sweet
Description
If in the shadows I should linger long. -
If I should faint and stumble by the way,
And all the light should vanish from the day,
Forgetting not that I had done you wrong,
Remembering only love's all-conquering sway,
Would you, sweet one, to my fond suit say nay?
Would you sustain me with your love and song?
Love is so sweet! Without its soothing power, -
Without we know that one is constant, true,
True in the saddest and the gladdest hour,
One constant still, when constant are so few, -
If I should faint and stumble by the way,
And all the light should vanish from the day,
Forgetting not that I had done you wrong,
Remembering only love's all-conquering sway,
Would you, sweet one, to my fond suit say nay?
Would you sustain me with your love and song?
Love is so sweet! Without its soothing power, -
Without we know that one is constant, true,
True in the saddest and the gladdest hour,
One constant still, when constant are so few, -
The stoutest heart will bend before the storm,
And prostrate He, a wrecked and blasted form.
Creator
T. Thomas Fortune
Source
3:49, p. 2
Date
1890.08.30
Collection
Citation
T. Thomas Fortune, “Love Is So Sweet,” Periodical Poets, accessed July 27, 2024, https://periodicalpoets.com/items/show/475.
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