"Thou whom I love, for whom I died, Lovest thou Me, My bride?" - Low on my knees I love Thee, Lord, Believed in and adored. "That I love thee the proof is plain: How dost thou love again?" - In prayer, in toil, in earthly loss, In a long-carried cross. "Yea, thou dost love: yet one adept Brings more for Me to accept." - I mould my will to match with Thine, My wishes I resign. "Thou givest much: then give the whole For solace of My soul." - More would I give, if I could get: But, Lord, what lack I yet? "In Me thou lovest Me: I call Thee to love Me in all." - Brim full my heart, dear Lord, that so My love may overflow. "Love Me in sinners and in saints, In each who needs or faints." - Lord, I will love Thee as I can In every brother man. "All sore, all crippled, all who ache, Tend all for My dear sake." - All for Thy sake, Lord: I will see In every sufferer, Thee. "So I at last, upon My Throne Of glory, Judge alone, So I at last will say to thee: Thou diddest it to Me." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RAT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES SONNET: 8. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY by JOHN MILTON HERE ENTER NOT by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON SONNET: LOVE'S HEIGHT by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON L'OISEAU BLEU (AFTER CHARLES CONDER) by GORDON BOTTOMLEY CHINESE PROCESSION by WITTER BYNNER TO A LADY WEEPING by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE SUMMONER'S PROLOGUE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER |