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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONNET, by ALICE DUER MILLER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, if you love me, hold me most your friend Last Line: Deem me all these, but love me as your love. | |||
DEAR, if you love me, hold me most your friend, Chosen from out the many who would bear Your gladness gladly -- heavily your care; Who best can sympathize, best comprehend, Where others fail; who, breathless to the end, Follows your tale of joy or of despair. Hold me your counsellor, because I dare To lift my hand to guide you, that I lend My love to help you. And I would you knew That I am fair enough to win men's hearts, If so I willed; yet honor me above All other women, since I am too true To trap you with my sex's smaller arts. Deem me all these, but love me as your love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG OF ETERNITY IN TIME by SIDNEY LANIER LEEDLE YAWCOB STRAUSS by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS INDIAN SUMMER by EMILY DICKINSON THE NATIONAL PAINTINGS: COL. TRUMBULL'S 'THE DECLARATION...' by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK ESTONIAN BRIDAL SONG by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER THE FIGHT AT SAN JACINTO [APRIL 21, 1836] by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER AN APRIL MORNING by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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