Glinka’s romances have a colossal influence on Russian vocal repertoire, displaying comparative characteristics that unite music and text, offering prospects to express the literary meaning within the poetics and reflect its representation through a compositional process. Glinka’s romance “Do Not Say Love Will Pass” (Rus: Не говори: любовь пройдет) is set to Delvig’s poetry and induces novel compositional methods while illustrating Delvig’s symbolism and imagery. The current study’s purpose is to bridge the poetic depiction and Glinka’s compositional language. The study examines the poetic symbolism and the song’s attempt to reflect Delvig’s interpretation of love. The song displays the singer’s struggle between the desire for love and its escaping nature, creating the realization that love is merely an anticipation rather than an eternal phenomenon, reminiscing the deeper meaning of love as a state rather than an emotion, as seen through the Delvig’s use of metaphors in comparing love’s end with notions of forgetfulness and sacrifice. The study also examines Glinka’s compositional response, artistically evaluating the poetic themes through a series of prominent key areas in the pianist’s accompaniment and the musical apogees in the singer’s main melody. Harmonic reduction and Schenkerian analysis are used in the study to examine Glinka’s harmonic paths and their integration with the primary thematics of Delvig’s poetry.