ASK if I love thee? Oh, smiles cannot tell Plainer what tears are now showing too well. Had I not loved thee, my sky had been clear: Had I not loved thee, I had not been here, Weeping by thee. Ask if I love thee? How else could I borrow Pride from man's slander, and strength from my sorrow? Laugh when they sneer at the fanatic's bride, Knowing no bliss, save to toil and abide Weeping by thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING STORM by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE BEACON; A MUSICAL DRAMA by JOANNA BAILLIE MORTALITY by GAMALIEL BRADFORD A PRAYER IN DARKNESS by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON DE DIE MARTIS, ET DIE VENERIS; EPIGRAM by CHARLES COTTON EPITAPH ON MISS GEE, WHO DIED OCTOBER 25, 1736 by NATHANIEL COTTON TWO VIEWS OF IT by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |