I loved you first: but afterwards your love Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song As drown'd the friendly cooings of my dove. Which owes the other most? my love was long, And yours one moment seem'd to wax more strong; I lov'd and guess'd at you, you construed me -- And lov'd me for what might or might not be Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong. For verily love knows not "mine" or "thine;" With separate "I" and "thou" free love has done, For one is both and both are one in love: Rich love knows nought of "thine that is not mine;" Both have the strength and both the length thereof, Both of us, of the love which makes us one. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AIN COUNTRIE by MARY LEE DEMAREST THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE by EUGENE FIELD GASCOIGNE'S GOOD MORROW by GEORGE GASCOIGNE THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE by THOMAS HARDY CURFEW by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IN MEMORIAM: W.G. WARD by ALFRED TENNYSON A CONSISTENT GIRL by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |