Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917.
Alice Freeman Palmer
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Good-bye to-day!
You turned to go, yet going turned to stay!
Till suddenly at last you went away.
And bowed my head;
And went in tears up to my lonely bed—
Oh, would it be like this if you were dead?