I. You say you love; but with a voice Chaster than a nun's, who singeth The soft Vespers to herself While the chime-bell ringeth-- O love me truly! II. You say you love; but with a smile Cold as sunrise in September, As you were Saint Cupid's nun, And kept his weeks of Ember. O love me truly! III. You say you love--but then your lips Coral tinted teach no blisses, More than coral in the sea-- They never pout for kisses-- O love me truly! IV. You say you love; but then your hand No soft squeeze for squeeze returneth, It is like a statue's dead-- While mine to passion burneth-- O love me truly! V. O breathe a word or two of fire! Smile, as if those words should burn me, Squeeze as lovers should--O kiss And in thy heart inurn me! O love me truly! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OVERNIGHT, A ROSE by CAROLINE GILTINAN GROWN-UP by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 7. TO THE BODY by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE THE THREAD OF LIFE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI PROMETHEUS UNBOUND; A LYRICAL DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE VILLAGE MUNITIONS CO., INC.; FORMERLY THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |