by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Sweetheart, do not love too long
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Language: English
Our translations: FRE
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one. But O, in a minute she changed -- O do not love too long, Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with W. B. Yeats, Later Poems, Macmillan and Co., London, 1926, page 86.
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "O do not love too long", appears in In the Seven Woods, first published 1904 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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