THIS love puts all humanity from me; I can but maledict her, pray her dead, For giving love and getting love of thee -- Feeding a heart that else mine own had fed! How much I love I know not, life not known, Save as some unit I would add love by; But this I know, my being is but thine own -- Fused from its separateness by ecstasy. And thus I grasp thy amplitudes, of her Ungrasped, though helped by nigh-regarding eyes; Canst thou then hate me as an envier Who see unrecked what I so dearly prize? Believe me, Lost One, Love is lovelier The more it shapes its moans in selfish-wise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHILD'S EVENING HYMN by SABINE BARING-GOULD EPIGRAM ON MY WEDDING DAY: TO PENELOPE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DEMON by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK THE RESTING PLACE by ADA CAMBRIDGE TO A YOUNG LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE SOMETHING ORIGINAL FOR HER ALBUM by THOMAS CAMPBELL |