"I LOVE you, sweet: how can you ever learn How much I love you?" "You I love even so, And so I learn it." "Sweet, you cannot know How fair you are." "If fair enough to earn Your love, so much is all my love's concern." "My love grows hourly, sweet." "Mine too doth grow, Yet love seemed full so many hours ago!" Thus lovers speak, till kisses claim their turn. Ah! happy they to whom such words as these In youth have served for speech the whole day long, Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas,-- What while Love breathed in sighs and silences Through two blent souls one rapturous undersong. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BROTHER AND SISTER by MARY ANN EVANS AFTER DEATH by FRANCES ISABEL PARNELL THE SURPRISE AT TICONDEROGA [MAY 10, 1775] by MARY ANNA PHINNEY STANSBURY SENEX TO MATT. PRIOR by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN POCAHONTAS [JANUARY 5, 1608] by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY SONG OF YOUTH by LULU PIPER AIKEN PHAENOMENA: WHEN JUSTICE DWELT ON EARTH by ARATUS COMPLAINS, BEING HIND'RED THE SIGHT OF HIS NYMPH by PHILIP AYRES I SHALL HAVE PEACE AGAIN (WRITTEN AFTER READING 'RIDERS TO THE SEA' by FLORA LOUISE BAILEY |