If you but knew How all my days seemed filled with dreams of you, How sometimes in the silent night Your eyes thrill through me with their tender light, How oft I hear your voice when others speak, How you 'mid other forms I seek -- Oh, love more real than though such dreams were true If you but knew. Could you but guess How you alone make all my happiness, How I am more than willing for your sake To stand alone, give all and nothing take, Nor chafe to think you bound while I am free, Quite free, till death, to love you silently, Could you but guess. Could you but learn How when you doubt my truth I sadly yearn To tell you all, to stand for one brief space Unfettered, soul to soul, as face to face, To crown you king, my king, till life shall end, My lover and likewise my truest friend, Would you love me, dearest, as fondly in return, Could you but learn? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DRUMS AND BRASS by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON BUCOLIC COMEDY: EARLY SPRING by EDITH SITWELL SLEEPLESS NIGHT by SARA TEASDALE ONE WORD MORE by ROBERT BROWNING BY THE ALMA RIVER by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK THE INDIAN BURYING GROUND by PHILIP FRENEAU SHE HEARS THE STORM by THOMAS HARDY |