SWEET, do you ask me if you love or no? Soon will your answers to my questions show: If in your cheeks hot blushes come and go, Like rose-leaves shaken on new-fallen snow; If tender sorrows in your heart arise, And sudden teardrops tremble in your eyes; If from my presence you would sigh to part, Believe me, darling, I have touched your heart. If when I speak your blue-veined eyelids sink, And veil the thoughts you scarcely dare to think: If when I greet you, hardly you reply, And when we part, but breathe a faint "Good-bye!" If your sweet face to mine you cannot raise, Yet fear not so to meet another's gaze; If all these things to make you glad combine, Believe me, darling, that your heart is mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARAGRAPHS: 9 by HAYDEN CARRUTH A WINTER'S NIGHT by ROBERT FROST BUT NOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FICTION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON LOST ILLUSIONS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON VENUS IN A GARDEN by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |