1547. "Whom the Gods Love" by Mark A. De Wolfe Howe. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1547. “Whom the Gods Love”

By Mark A. De Wolfe Howe


“WHOM the gods love die young;”—if gods ye be,
Then generously might ye have spared to us
One from your vast unnumbered overplus,
One youth we loved as tenderly as ye.