English Poetry. Richard Monckton Milnes. Only We. Ричард Монктон Милнс.

Richard Monckton Milnes (Ричард Монктон Милнс)

Only We

Dream no more that grief and pain
Could such hearts as ours enchain,
Safe from loss and safe from gain,
Free, as love makes free.

When false friends pass coldly by,
Sigh, in earnest pity, sigh,
Turning thine unclouded eye
Up from them to me.

Hear not danger's trampling feet,
Feel not sorrow's wintry sleet,
Trust that life is just and meet,
With mine arm round thee.

Lip on lip, and eye to eye,
Love to love, we live, we die;
No more thou, and no more I,
We, and only we!

Richard Monckton Milnes’s other poems:

1. To Charles Lamb
2. Grief Sat Beside the Fount of Tears
3. Delphi
4. Written at Mycenae
5. Six Years, Six Cycles of Dead Hours

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