Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917. | | | | In Deep Places | | By Amelia Josephine Burr |
| | | I LOVE thee, dear, and knowing mine own heart | |
| With every beat I give God thanks for this; | |
| I love thee only for the self thou art; | |
| No wild embrace, no wisdom-shaking kiss, | |
| No passionate pleading of a heart laid bare, | 5 |
| No urgent cry of love’s extremity— | |
| Strong traps to take the spirit unaware— | |
| Not one of these I ever had of thee. | |
| Neither of passion nor of pity wrought | |
| Is this, the love to which at last I yield, | 10 |
| But shapen in the stillness of my thought | |
| And by a birth of agony revealed. | |
| Here is a thing to live while we do live | |
| Which honors thee to take and me to give. | | | | |
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