If You Should Go
Countee Cullen 1903 (New York) – 1946 (New York City)
Love, leave me like the light,
The gently passing day;
We would not know, but for the night,
When it has slipped away.
So many hopes have fled,
Have left me but the name
Of what they were. When love is dead,
Go thou, beloved, the same.
Go quietly; a dream
When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
Across the dreamer’s face.
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Submitted by halel on July 13, 2020
Modified on March 29, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 340 |
Words | 68 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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