Poems of Sidney Lanier/Street Cries/A Song of Love

For works with similar titles, see A Song of Love.

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This is the seventh and final poem of Lanier’s collection Street Cries. The date of composition is not given.

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VII.
A SONG OF LOVE.

"Hey, rose, just bornTwin to a thorn;Was't so with you, O Love and Scorn?

"Sweet eyes that smiled,Now wet and wild;O Eye and Tear—mother and child.

"Well: Love and PainBe kinsfolk twain:Yet would, Oh would I could love again."