THIS is what I vow; He shall have my heart to keep; Sweetly will we stir and sleep, All the years, as now. Swift the measured sands may run; Love like this is never done; He and I are welded one: This is what I vow. This is what I pray: Keep him by me tenderly; Keep him sweet in pride of me, Ever and a day; Keep me from the old distress; Let me, for our happiness, Be the one to love the less: This is what I pray. This is what I know: Lovers' oaths are thin as rain; Love's a harbinger of pain -- Would it were not so! Ever is my heart a-thirst, Ever is my love accurst; He is neither last nor first -- This is what I know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOST PLEIAD by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS THE PROGRESS OF POETRY by JONATHAN SWIFT TO A WILD DUCK by BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON ONCE IN A WAY by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM A FAITHFUL DOG by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON MOLE-BLIND by MARTHANN CANFIELD AN AUSTRALIAN GIRL by ETHEL CASTILLA THE BOROUGH: LETTER 13. THE ALMS-HOUSE AND TRUSTEES by GEORGE CRABBE |