Sonnet 35 - If I Leave All For Thee, Wilt Thou Exchange
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
XXXV If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me? Shall I never miss Home-talk and blessing and the common kiss That comes to each in turn, nor count it strange, When I look up, to drop on a new range Of walls and floors, another home than this? Nay, wilt thou fill that place by me which is Filled by dead eyes too tender to know change? That ’s hardest. If to conquer love, has tried, To conquer grief, tries more, as all things prove; For grief indeed is love and grief beside. Alas, I have grieved sol am hard to love. Yet love me—wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within the wet wings of thy dove.
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