Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers |
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LOVER'S SONG
I thank thee, dear, for words that fleet,
For looks that long endure,
For all caresses simply sweet
And passionately pure;
For looks that long endure,
For all caresses simply sweet
And passionately pure;
For blushes mutely understood,
For silence and for sighs,
For all the yearning womanhood
Of grey love-laden eyes.
For silence and for sighs,
For all the yearning womanhood
Of grey love-laden eyes.
Oh how in words to tell the rest?
My bird, my child, my dove!
Behold I render best for best,
I bring thee love for love.
My bird, my child, my dove!
Behold I render best for best,
I bring thee love for love.
Oh give to God the love again
Which had from him its birth,—
Oh bless him, for he sent the twain
Together on the earth.
Which had from him its birth,—
Oh bless him, for he sent the twain
Together on the earth.
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