Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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TO AMARYLLIS
I love thee with a love so deep
And in its depth so strong,
Its spells transmute life's thorns to fruit,
And sorrows into song.
For Beauty dead I could not weep,
She cannot die to me;
I love thee with a love so deep,
So strong my love for thee.
And in its depth so strong,
Its spells transmute life's thorns to fruit,
And sorrows into song.
For Beauty dead I could not weep,
She cannot die to me;
I love thee with a love so deep,
So strong my love for thee.
I love thee with a love so rich,
That in its charm so rare,
E'en Midas' self had left his pelf,
And for thy sake gone bare;
And yet not bare with half a niche
In Eros' fane near thee;
I love thee with a love so rich,
So rare my love for thee.
That in its charm so rare,
E'en Midas' self had left his pelf,
And for thy sake gone bare;
And yet not bare with half a niche
In Eros' fane near thee;
I love thee with a love so rich,
So rare my love for thee.
I love thee with a love so true,
And in its truth so tried,
That ere it pale life's force must fail,
Or Time roll back his tide.
By slow degrees the sapling grew,
Not quickly bends the tree;
I love thee with a love so true,
So tried my love for thee.
And in its truth so tried,
That ere it pale life's force must fail,
Or Time roll back his tide.
By slow degrees the sapling grew,
Not quickly bends the tree;
I love thee with a love so true,
So tried my love for thee.
I love thee with a love that is
The best of loves that are,—
A lustrous stone, which shines alone
'Mid lesser lights a star;
A star that adds to very bliss
Another glint of glee;—
I love thee with a love like this,—
O what's thy love for me?
The best of loves that are,—
A lustrous stone, which shines alone
'Mid lesser lights a star;
A star that adds to very bliss
Another glint of glee;—
I love thee with a love like this,—
O what's thy love for me?
January 1877.
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