Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VIII. Wedded Love | Sonnets from the Portuguese
XXI. Say over again, and yet once over again | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
| | | SAY over again, and yet once over again, | |
| That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated | |
| Should seem a “cuckoo-song,” as thou dost treat it, | |
| Remember never to the hill or plain, | |
| Valley and wood, without her cuckoo-strain, | 5 |
| Comes the fresh spring in all her green completed. | |
| Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted | |
| By a doubtful spirit-voice, in that doubt’s pain | |
| Cry: “Speak once more—thou lovest!” Who can fear | |
| Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll,— | 10 |
| Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? | |
| Say thou dost love me, love me, love me,—toll | |
| The silver iterance!—only minding, dear, | |
| To love me also in silence, with thy soul. | | | | |
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