These things that poets said

Edward Thomas

1878 to 1917

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By this one argument
These things that poets said
And theirs some other lovely weed:
But now I wish I knew
When I loved and I fed
Or if mine were the true
I, loving not, am different.
Then or thereafter, I
Loved ever. Between us
Only, that once I loved
Is very plainly proved:
For certainly not thus,
On love and poetry equally.
If theirs were love indeed,
Decide, good Love, before I die.
Of love seemed true to me

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