Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S HUMILITIES, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR


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First Line: To think of thee, to think of thee!
Last Line: O sweet, suffice it thee!
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares


To think of thee, to think of thee!
O privilege too pure for me!—
Though I could part the sacred veil
Within my soul, and show thee pale
Against a golden light,
With long hands folded on thy breast,
Like some Madonna, drawn to rest
Upthrough a jasper night.

To dream of thee, to dream of thee!
O sweetness far too sweet for me!—
To seek thy bosom like a dove,
To cling about thy feet like love,

What earthly dream shall dare?
Let mine but hear the cushat call
Through roseries thy faint foot-fall
Hath silenced, like a prayer.

To think of thee, to dream of thee!
O ecstasy too rare for me!—
Nay! Thou art but a colour through
All fantasies I ever knew,
Love, Love!—Or wilt thou be

An odour of hid lilies in
All dells of reverie I win?—
O Sweet, suffice it thee!





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