Poems of Sidney Lanier/Street Cries/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.

117350Poems of Sidney Lanier/Street Cries — City Cries: VII. A Song of LoveSidney Lanier

VII.
A SONG OF LOVE.

"Hey, rose, just born
Twin 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 Pain
Be kinsfolk twain:
Yet would, Oh would I could love again."