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SONNET III
CONFESSION OF MY FAITH
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SONNET III
CONFESSION OF MY FAITH
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Love, thou art sweet, but thou art not for me:Only to love thee more than other men
Is mine, a fleeting vision now and then
Of garments passing rapidly to see,
But never in thine arms alas! to be,
Never to hold thee in a close embrace
And only see the eyes and not the face,
So near that all things else are forced to flee
Save the expression of the life—to die
Ten thousand deaths ecstatic in a kiss,
Low at annihilation's feet to lie
Unconscious in abandonment of bliss—
The lovers who are capable of this
By fate are left for loss of it to sigh.
1870.
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