English Poetry. Amy Levy. Youth and Love. Эми Леви.

Amy Levy (Эми Леви)

Youth and Love

What does youth know of love?
Little enough, I trow!
He plucks the myrtle for his brow,
For his forehead the rose.
Nay, but of love
It is not youth who knows.

Amy Levy’s other poems:

1. The Old Poet
2. Ballade of an Omnibus
3. To Vernon Lee
4. On the Wye in May
5. The Lost Friend

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