Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917.
Lizette Woodworth Reese
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Playing his old part;
But I had a word or two
That would break his heart.
That should come before,
Must betake him to the night
From a barrèd door.”
In the fall o’ dew;
This the word that brake his heart—
Yet it brake mine, too.