Loving Kind
Loving Kind
Original Text
A.D. Hope, Collected Poems: 1930-1970 (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1972): 226-227. PR 6015.O55 A17 1972 Robarts Library
1Loving Kind went by the way,
2Hapless Loving Kind,
3Up and down, by night and day,
4Her true love to find.
5Roving eye and nimble tongue
6All her paths pursue:
7How should she, and she so young,
8Know false love from true?
9Some by grace she would compel;
10None would she deny:
11How shall I my true love tell
12Only passing by?
13Sober heart and prudent mind
14Scorn her and reprove:
15How should she by loving find
16Any truth in love?
17Yet she smiled and smiling said:
18Though my love I see
19Except I take him to my bed,
20How shall he know me?
Publication Start Year
1967
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2009
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