English poem
Sonnet 21 - Say over again, and yet once over again
Say over again, and yet once over again, That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated Should seem 'a cuckoo-song,' as thou dost treat it, Remember, never to the hill or plain, Valley and wood, without her cuckoo-strain Comes the fresh Spring in all her green completed. Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted By a doubtful spirit-voice, in that doubt's pain Cry, 'Speak once more—thou lovest! 'Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll, Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence with thy soul.
More by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Sonnet 09 - Can it be right to give what I can give?
- Sonnet 12 - Indeed this very love which is my boast
- Sonnet 16 - And yet, because thou overcomest so
- Sonnet 19 - The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise
- Sonnet 22 - When our two souls stand up erect and strong
- Sonnet 23 - Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead
- Sonnet 30 - I see thine image through my tears to-night
- Sonnet 32 - The first time that the sun rose on thine oath