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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Sixteen

Edward Pickerill

LOVE is a very big thing—a very great thing, mother;

And I am afraid.

“I love you”—that is what he said;

But he looked away as he spoke,

And he faltered when he kissed me.

Love is a very big thing—a very great thing, mother;

And I am afraid.