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Love, What Is Love: 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.

Analysis of this poem
  • love
  • passion

More verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • My Body, Which My Dungeon Is
  • To Mrs. Will. H. Low.
  • Underwoods: Epigram
  • Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest
  • The Sick Child

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