THE lady who my thoughts does captive take One day said something which I value so, That I no other recompense can make, But the words printed in my heart to show. She told me, with the pretty laugh you know, 'I think that I must love you after all.' I answered her, 'Not mine I wish to call So vast a treasure, for I truly say I reason have to fear, if this befall, Since love with tenfold loving I repay.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ONLY OF THEE AND ME by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE STORY OF URIAH by RUDYARD KIPLING THE COUNTY OF MAYO by THOMAS LAVELLE THE TUFT OF KELP by HERMAN MELVILLE NOTHING WILL DIE by ALFRED TENNYSON ON VENUS ARISING FROM THE SEA by ANTIPATER OF SIDON I COME SINGING by JOSEPH AUSLANDER STANZAS, COMPOSED WHILE WALKING ON WARREN HILL, EARLY SUMMER'S MORNING by BERNARD BARTON |