Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume III/Love’s Unselfishness

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see I Love.

LOVE’S UNSELFISHNESS

CHAPTER XXXIX.

PARTING.

That is love
Which chooseth from a thousand only one
To be the object of that tenderness
Natural to every heart; which can resign
Its own best happiness for one dear sake;
Can bear with absence; hath no part in hope,
For hope is somewhat selfish: love is not,
And doth prefer another to itself.

Not in Blanchard

From The History of the Lyre in The Venetian Bracelet

In the Bouquet (1846), under (Chrysanthemum-Red) Chrysanthemum Indicum as I Love