Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY OWEN, by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING First Line: Proud of you, fond of you, clinging so near to you Last Line: More than the wisest know your heart shall preach to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Of The Nation | ||||||||
PROUD of you, fond of you, clinging so near to you, Light is my heart now I know I am dear to you! Glad is my voice now, so free it may sing for you All the wild love which is burning within for you! Tell me once more, tell it over and over, The tale of that eve which first saw you my lover. Now I need never blush At my heart's hottest gush -- The wife of my Owen her heart may discover! Proud of you, fond of you, having all right in you, Quitting all else through my love and delight in you! Glad is my heart since 'tis beating so nigh to you! Light is my step for it always may fly to you! Clasped in your arms where no sorrow can reach to me, Reading your eyes till new love they shall teach to me. Though wild and weak till now, By that blest marriage vow, More than the wisest know your heart shall preach to me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND, ABSENT UPON PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT by ANNE BRADSTREET SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 28 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING NORMAN CRADLE-SONG by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN THE SURPRISE AT TICONDEROGA [MAY 10, 1775] by MARY ANNA PHINNEY STANSBURY SIX O'CLOCK by TRUMBULL STICKNEY DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES AT A GRAVE by ROBERT LEE CAMPBELL LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - APRIL/JUNE 1810 by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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