Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by IRENE M. MORSE


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TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by                    
First Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do
Last Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do.
Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Romance; Words; Vocabulary


Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do.
I have not all your steadiness to guide
My wayward heart. My mind will question so;
My faith cries often to be fortified.

Are love and passion one? How can I know?
Your lips, responsive, ask for my caress.
You say that words are halting messengers,—
That silences are fraught with tenderness.

But little words are fair to one who loves.
A song, accompanied, so sweetly true.
Let simple phrases still my questioning.
Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do.





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