Song
Love me because I am lost; Love me that I am undone. That is brave, — no man has wished it. Not one.
Be strong, to look on my heart As others look on my face. Love me, — I tell you that it is a ravaged Terrible place.
Louise Bogan
Love me because I am lost; Love me that I am undone. That is brave, — no man has wished it. Not one.
Be strong, to look on my heart As others look on my face. Love me, — I tell you that it is a ravaged Terrible place.
In “Song,” Louise Bogan’s speaker asks for a love that most people would refuse. She does not want to be loved despite being lost or undone; she wants to be loved because of it. There is a challenge in her voice, almost a dare: no man has wished it, not one.
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