Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY OWEN, by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING


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MY OWEN, by                    
First Line: Proud of you, fond of you, clinging so near to you
Last Line: More than the wisest know your heart shall preach to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Of The Nation


PROUD of you, fond of you, clinging so near to you,
Light is my heart now I know I am dear to you!
Glad is my voice now, so free it may sing for you
All the wild love which is burning within for you!
Tell me once more, tell it over and over,
The tale of that eve which first saw you my lover.
Now I need never blush
At my heart's hottest gush --
The wife of my Owen her heart may discover!

Proud of you, fond of you, having all right in you,
Quitting all else through my love and delight in you!
Glad is my heart since 'tis beating so nigh to you!
Light is my step for it always may fly to you!
Clasped in your arms where no sorrow can reach to me,
Reading your eyes till new love they shall teach to me.
Though wild and weak till now,
By that blest marriage vow,
More than the wisest know your heart shall preach to me.





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