| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1520. A Sonnet |
| | | By Amélie Troubetzkoy |
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| TAKE all of me,—I am thine own, heart, soul, | |
| Brain, body,—all; all that I am or dream | |
| Is thine forever; yea, though space should teem | |
| With thy conditions, I ’d fulfil the whole— | |
| Were to fulfil them to be loved of thee. | 5 |
| Oh, love me!—were to love me but a way | |
| To kill me—love me; so to die would be | |
| To live forever. Let me hear thee say | |
| Once only, “Dear, I love thee,”’—then all life | |
| Would be one sweet remembrance, thou its king: | 10 |
| Nay, thou art that already, and the strife | |
| Of twenty worlds could not uncrown the Bring, | |
| O Time! my monarch to possess his throne | |
| Which is my heart and for himself alone. | |
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