Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BUDDING FORTH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY


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BUDDING FORTH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love thee, oh, I love thee!' - how those words
Last Line: Wilt thou not look upon me as I kneel?
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets


"I love thee, oh, I love thee!"—How those words
Mount upward from my heart in swelling joy!
"I love thee, oh, I love thee!"—Those sweet words
Gush forth unbidden in resistless joy!

I love thee!—not as others love,—as those
Who bend in servile homage to the creature;
I love the soul—the perfume, not the rose—
The glorious soul that beams through every feature!

I love thee!—I have listened to thy voice
Till it has entered in and filled my heart;
And with a joy-born tremour I rejoice
When through my frame its tones sweet-thrilling dart!

I love thee!—I have gazed into thine eyes
Deep as are the depths of dark-blue ocean,
And seen bright, noble thoughts within arise,
And issue forth in angel-like emotion!

I love thee!—I have gazed into those eyes
Till I have read the stainless soul within,
Pure and unspotted as my native skies;
Too pure for earth, too good to dwell with sin!

I love thee!—I have bent, in worshipping
Yet anguished reverence, before thy soul;
Feeling, alas, life's tenure from me slipping,
And I not reached thy heart, my spirit's goal!

I love thee, angel-souled!—A haughty brow,
That never bowed to other, bows to thee;
A spirit proud and lonely until now,
Kneeleth, as to an altar-shrine—to thee!

I love thee! with a poet's adoration,
Such as the common-souled can never feel,—
Wilt thou not hear my earnest imploration?
Wilt thou not look upon me as I kneel?





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