Sometimes with One I Love

Sometimes with One I Love by Walt Whitman

 SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn’d love; 
But now I think there is no unreturn’d love—the pay is certain, one way or another; 
(I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return’d; 
Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

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