Stevie Smith - “Love is not love that wounded bleeds And...”

“Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.”

Stevie Smith Modern Classics Selected Poems Of Stevie Smith

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