Here’s “My Three Loves” (1875) by Henry S. Leigh (1837-1883), a poignant love poem:
When Life was all a summer day,
And I was under twenty,
Three loves were scattered in my way —
And three at once are plenty.
Three hearts, if offered with a grace,
One thinks not of refusing;
The task in this especial case
Was only that of choosing.
I knew not which to make my pet, —
My pipe, cigar, or cigarette…
For the rest of my “Sasha Reads” playlist, click here. Past poems are:
- “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “The Pulley” by George Herbert
- “Harmonie du soir” by Charles Baudelaire
- “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “Clancy of the Overflow” by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson
- “Лотова жена” (“Lotova zhena”, “Lot’s wife”) by Anna Akhmatova
- “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear
- “The Conqueror Worm” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “Les Djinns” by Victor Hugo
- “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger
- “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by A.E. Housman
- “Узник” (“Uznik”, “The Prisoner” or “The Captive”) by Aleksandr Pushkin
- “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats
- “Je crains pas ça tellment” by Raymond Queneau
- “The Naming of Cats” by T.S. Eliot
- “The reticent volcano keeps…” by Emily Dickinson
- “Она” (“Ona”, “She”) by Zinaida Gippius
- “Would I Be Shrived?” by John D. Swain
- “Evolution” by Langdon Smith
- “Chanson d’automne” by Oscar Milosz
- “love is more thicker than forget” by e.e. cummings
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