I love you with a passion -- holy, deep -- Not altogether free from warm desire, But with a passion purified, as fire Consumes the dross and seeks the gold to keep. My love for you transcends such petty things As searing jealousy . . . embittered words; With the unfettered certainty of birds It soars aloft on unfurled, silver wings. This love I bear has been my sole concern; I have not reckoned what you bring to me Nor asked of you a pledged fidelity; My only care is that my altar burn. If you would go, I could not say you nay; But paradise is ours if you would stay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE HOLY NATIVITY [OF OUR LORD GOD]; AS SUNG BY SHEPHERDS by RICHARD CRASHAW A RENOUNCING OF LOVE by THOMAS WYATT THE DAUGHTER OF THE BLIND by ANNE M. F. ANNAN RESURRECTION SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES MAY'S LOVE by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ON A YOUNG POETESS'S GRAVE by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A L'ENTRESOL by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |