spiralsheep: Martha laughing (Martha Laughing)
Humph ([personal profile] spiralsheep) wrote in [community profile] poetree 2012-09-28 07:51 pm (UTC)

Re: That depends which sort of love....

23 is a bit gothic and overly dramatic for my taste, although it reads less so within its context in the sequence, but it's a Good Thing there are enough differing forms of love to go around. So, for anyone who doesn't know it....

Sonnets from the Portuguese 23: Is it indeed so?

Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead,
Wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine?
And would the sun for thee more coldly shine
Because of grave-damps falling round my head?
I marvelled, my Belovèd, when I read
Thy thought so in the letter. I am thine -
But... so much to thee? Can I pour thy wine
While my hands tremble? Then my soul, instead
Of dreams of death, resumes life's lower range.
Then love me, Love! look on me - breathe on me!
As brighter ladies do not count it strange,
For love, to give up acres and degree,
I yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange
My near sweet view of Heaven, for earth with thee!

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61)

:-)

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