'LORD, if I love Thee and Thou lovest me, Why need I any more these toilsome days? Why should I not run singing up Thy ways Straight into heaven, to rest myself with Thee? What need remains of death-pang yet to be, If all my soul is quickened in Thy praise? If all my heart loves Thee, what need the amaze, Struggle and dimness of an agony?' -- 'Bride whom I love, if thou too lovest Me, Thou needs must choose My Likeness for thy dower: So wilt thou toil in patience, and abide Hungering and thirsting for that blessed hour When I My Likeness shall behold in thee, And thou therein shalt waken satisfied.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO JOHN BROWN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE HOLY SONNET: SATIRE 3. ON RELIGION by JOHN DONNE BEN BOLT by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH NINETY-NINE IN THE SHADE by ROSSITER JOHNSON SONNET: DEATH-WARNINGS by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS |