I. You say you love; but with a voice Chaster than a nun's, who singeth The soft Vespers to herself While the chime-bell ringeth-- O love me truly! II. You say you love; but with a smile Cold as sunrise in September, As you were Saint Cupid's nun, And kept his weeks of Ember. O love me truly! III. You say you love--but then your lips Coral tinted teach no blisses, More than coral in the sea-- They never pout for kisses-- O love me truly! IV. You say you love; but then your hand No soft squeeze for squeeze returneth, It is like a statue's dead-- While mine to passion burneth-- O love me truly! V. O breathe a word or two of fire! Smile, as if those words should burn me, Squeeze as lovers should--O kiss And in thy heart inurn me! O love me truly! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SHELL TO THE PEARL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER AMERICA: SONNET 2 by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL THE WANING MOON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ELEGIAC SONNET: 7. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE NIGHTINGALE by CHARLOTTE SMITH AT THE SEASIDE by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE LESSER BEAUTY by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON OUR DAILY BREAD by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK |