Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOU SAY YOU LOVE, by JOHN KEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say you love; but with a voice Last Line: O love me truly! Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
I. You say you love; but with a voice Chaster than a nun's, who singeth The soft Vespers to herself While the chime-bell ringeth-- O love me truly! II. You say you love; but with a smile Cold as sunrise in September, As you were Saint Cupid's nun, And kept his weeks of Ember. O love me truly! III. You say you love--but then your lips Coral tinted teach no blisses, More than coral in the sea-- They never pout for kisses-- O love me truly! IV. You say you love; but then your hand No soft squeeze for squeeze returneth, It is like a statue's dead-- While mine to passion burneth-- O love me truly! V. O breathe a word or two of fire! Smile, as if those words should burn me, Squeeze as lovers should--O kiss And in thy heart inurn me! O love me truly! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA by JOHN KEATS |
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