"If Death be Good"
"If Death be Good"
Original Text
Bliss Carman, Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (Boston: L. C. Page, 1903), p. 87. D-10 6569 Fisher Library (copy 78).
1If death be good,
2Why do the gods not die?
3If life be ill,
4Why do the gods still live?
5If love be naught,
6Why do the gods still love?
7If love be all,
8What should men do but love?
Publication Start Year
1903
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.