Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 9, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL


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First Line: My love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die
Last Line: That they who love are but one step from heaven.
Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


MY Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die;
Albeit I ask no fairer life than this,
Whose numbering-clock is still thy gentle kiss,
While Time and Peace with hands unlocked fly, --
Yet care I not where in Eternity
We live and love, well knowing that there is
No backward step for those who feel the bliss
Of Faith as their most lofty yearnings high:
Love hath so purified my being's core,
Meseems I scarcely should be startled, even,
To find, some morn, that thou hadst gone before;
Since, with thy love, this knowledge too was given,
Which each calm day doth strengthen more and more,
That they who love are but one step from Heaven.




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