English Poetry. Henry Van Dyke. Love. Генри Ван Дайк.

Love


Let me but love my love without disguise,
Nor wear a mask of fashion old or new,
Nor wait to speak till I can hear a clue,
Nor play a part to shine in others’ eyes,
Nor bow my knees to what my heart denies;
But what I am, to that let me be true,
And let me worship where my love is due,
And so through love and worship let me rise.

For love is but the heart’s immortal thirst
To be completely known and all forgiven,
Even as sinful souls that enter Heaven:
So take me, dear, and understand my worst,
And freely pardon it, because confessed,
And let me find in loving thee, my best.

Henry Van Dyke’s other poems:

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) Love (“All thoughts, all passions, all delights”) 1799

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (Элизабет Барретт-Браунинг) Love (“We cannot live, except thus mutually”)

Rupert Brooke (Руперт Брук) Love (“Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate”)

Charles Calverley (Чарльз Калверли) Love (“Canst thou love me, lady?”)

Thomas Gent (Томас Гент) Love (“Love!—what is love? a mere machine, a spring”)

Nicholas Breton (Николас Бретон) Love (“Foolish love is only folly”)

Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер) Love (“Deep in the moving depths”)

Alexander Smith (Александр Смит) Love (“THE fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays”)

Jones Very (Джонс Вери) Love (“I asked of Time to tell me where was Love”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Love (“The longer I live and the more I see”)