There have been times
Alan Seeger
1888 to 1916
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My life that hangs by a so slender thread,
Lest mutual devotion make too dear
But you shall never hear me supplicate.
Have made my asking less importunate,
And happy love unnerve me before May
Easing desire with discourse and sweet rhyme.
To wound me with unkindness done or said,
There have been times when I could storm and plead,
Nay, be capricious, willful; have no fear
These long months that have magnified my need
For that stern part that I have yet to play.
Were more content to rule themselves and wait,
That not the courteous lovers of old time
For now small favors seem to me so great