Sometimes with One I Love

by Walt Whitman · 1867
Published 01/07/1867

SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love;

But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another;

(I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd;

Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

#emotional turmoil #heartbreak #unrequited love #walt whitman

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