"I LOVE you, sweet: how can you ever learn How much I love you?" "You I love even so, And so I learn it." "Sweet, you cannot know How fair you are." "If fair enough to earn Your love, so much is all my love's concern." "My love grows hourly, sweet." "Mine too doth grow, Yet love seemed full so many hours ago!" Thus lovers speak, till kisses claim their turn. Ah! happy they to whom such words as these In youth have served for speech the whole day long, Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas,-- What while Love breathed in sighs and silences Through two blent souls one rapturous undersong. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PSALM 8. MAN'S PLACE IN CREATION by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE MOUNTAINEER AND POET by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ENGLAND (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE INVOCATION [TO LOVE] by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION A) by GEORGE MEREDITH THE KINGDOM OF GOD by FRANCIS THOMPSON |