Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her

If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.
- Poem by Christopher Brennan

Love Me Not for Comely Grace

Love me not for comely grace
For my pleasing eye or face, Nor for any outward part,
No, nor for my constant heart.
For those my fail or turn to ill, So thou and I shall sever.
Keep therefore a true woman's eye,
And love me still, but know not why;
So hast thou the same reason still
To doat upon me ever.
- Poem by John Wilbye

The profoundest thought or passion
sleeps as in a mine, until an equal
mind and heart finds and publishes it.
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Passion,
And Romance Poems
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