Ina Coolbrith

1841 – 1928 / Nauvoo, Illinois

If I Have Never Loved Before

If I have never loved before
Yet love I now, indeed!
My lover's will is as the wind
Wherein I am reed.

Yet know I well how firm and fair
The wind's soft wooings are-
True as unto the day the sun,
Unto the night the star.
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