I love you with a passion -- holy, deep -- Not altogether free from warm desire, But with a passion purified, as fire Consumes the dross and seeks the gold to keep. My love for you transcends such petty things As searing jealousy . . . embittered words; With the unfettered certainty of birds It soars aloft on unfurled, silver wings. This love I bear has been my sole concern; I have not reckoned what you bring to me Nor asked of you a pledged fidelity; My only care is that my altar burn. If you would go, I could not say you nay; But paradise is ours if you would stay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD, AND BURIED by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER BETWEEN WAND AND WELT by MARGARET AHO DIGNITY OF LABOR by LEVI BISHOP AUGURY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |