Samuel Butler Poems
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Dorothy Parker
When I admit neglect of Gissing,
They say I don't know what I'm missing.
Until their arguments are subtler,
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She was too kind, wooed too persistently,
Wrote moving letters to me day by day;
The more she wrote, the more unmoved was I,
The more she gave, the less could I repay.
Therefore I grieve, not that I was not loved,
But that, being loved, I could not love again.
I liked, but like and love are far removed;
Hard though I tried to love I...Read more of this...