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Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson


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LOVE - what is love? A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.
Life - what is life? Upon a moorland bare
To see love coming and see love depart. 



Robert Louis Stevenson


Robert Louis Stevenson's other poems:
  1. I Know Not How, But As I Count
  2. Requiem
  3. Sonet VI. As in the Hostel by the Bridge I Sate
  4. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 36. TO S.C.
  5. Light as the Linnet on My Way I Start


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