THIS is what I vow; He shall have my heart to keep; Sweetly will we stir and sleep, All the years, as now. Swift the measured sands may run; Love like this is never done; He and I are welded one: This is what I vow. This is what I pray: Keep him by me tenderly; Keep him sweet in pride of me, Ever and a day; Keep me from the old distress; Let me, for our happiness, Be the one to love the less: This is what I pray. This is what I know: Lovers' oaths are thin as rain; Love's a harbinger of pain -- Would it were not so! Ever is my heart a-thirst, Ever is my love accurst; He is neither last nor first -- This is what I know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (B) by WILLIAM BLAKE THE STATUE AND THE BUST by ROBERT BROWNING REVELATION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775] by JOHN PIERPONT ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 14 by PHILIP SIDNEY THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DECEMBER by EDMUND SPENSER |