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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN LOVE MEETS LOVE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poet's Biography
First Line: When love meets love, breast urged to breast
Last Line: O, where is all our love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: When love meets love, breast urged to breast
Last Line: O, where is all our love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
WHEN love meets love, breast urged to breast,
God interposes,
An unacknowledged guest,
And leaves a little child among our roses.
O, gentle hap!
O, sacred lap!
O, brooding dove!
But when he grows
Himself to be a rose,
God takes him -- where is then our love?
O, where is all our love?
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