These Things That Poets Said

THESE things that poets said

Of love seemed true to me

When I loved and I fed

On love and poetry equally.

But now I wish I knew

If theirs were love indeed,

Or if mine were the true

And theirs some other lovely weed:

For certainly not thus,

Then or thereafter, I

Loved ever. Between us

Decide, good Love, before I die.

Only, that once I loved

By this one argument

Is very plainly proved:

I, loving not, am different.