1 "Do you remember, darling, The mocking words you said,— And snapt with fairy fingers And shook your naughty head? And have you thought it over yet? And will my child be true? And has she loved me long enough To know what she can do?"— 2 "Oh I remember nothing, Nor mocking words nor true,— For I remember nothing But you, but you, but you! Forget the men that wooed me,— I hate them,—let them go;— Forget the song I sang to you That day I 'did not know'! 3 "Ah! not like this they wooed me,— 'Twas gamesome girl and boy;— Sometimes I half was willing And often I was coy: And this I took for love, dear,— So little then I knew! But now I smile to think I thought Of any love but you. 4 "For @3this@1 is quite a strange thing, With @3this@1 I cannot play; At a single look of yours, dear, My spirit melts away; And body and soul are yours, dear, I am you, I am not I, And if you go I'll follow you, And if you change, I'll die."— 5 "I've seen in a king's cabinet Full many a carven toy; And Life the Psyche-butterfly And Love the running boy; And Life the altar odorous And Love the kindling flame, And Life the lion amorous Which Love was come to tame. 6 "But we from sard and sardonyx Must grave us gems anew, If we would have the legend Tell truth for me and you! For Love has caught the butterfly, And Love has lit the fire, And Love has led invincibly His lion with the lyre." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES by ROBERT HERRICK THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ODES II, 14 by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS DEATH AND CUPID; AN ALLEGORY by JOHN GODFREY SAXE THE GRAPE-VINE SWING by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS SONNET ON CATHERINE WORDSWORTH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH LINES TO CASTE by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: REVELATION by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS |