Leaves of Grass (1882)/Calamus/Sometimes with One I Love

2380685Leaves of Grass (1882)Sometimes with One I LoveWalt Whitman

SOMETIMES WITH ONE I LOVE.

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.)