When we met first and loved, I did not build by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

in #poetry6 years ago (edited)

When we met first and loved, I did not build
Upon the event with marble. Could it mean
To last, a love set pendulous between
Sorrow and sorrow? Nay, I rather thrilled,
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Distrusting every light that seemed to gild
The onward path, and feared to overlean
A finger even. And, though I have grown serene
And strong since then, I think that God has willed
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A still renewable fear . . . O love, O troth . . .
Lest these enclasped hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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And Love, be false! if he, to keep one oath,
Must lose one joy, by his life's star foretold.
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