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. + 