Ventures Into Verse / Being various ballads, ballades, rondeaux, triolets, songs, quatrains, odes and roundels, all rescued from the potters' field of old files and here given decent burial

by H. L. Mencken

Love me more or not at all,

Half a rose is less than none;

Hear the wretch you hold in thrall!

Love me more or not at all!

Dilletante love will pall,

I would have you wholly won;—

Love me more or not at all;

Half a rose is less than none!

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