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Let's celebrate LOVE by posting poems that inspire this commitment. Keep it pure, NO LUST PLEASE.



IF YOU BUT KNEW


If you but knew
How all my days seemed filled with dreams of you,
How sometimes in the silent of night,
Your eyes thrill through me with their tender light,
How oft i hear your voice when others speak,
How you 'mid other forms i seek-
Oh, love more real than though such dreams were true
If you but knew


Could but guess
How you alone make all my happiness,
How i am more than willing for your sake
To stand alone, give all and nothing take,
Nor chafe to think you bound when i am free,
Quite free, till death, to love you silently,
Could you but guess.


Could you but learn
How you doubt my truth i sadly yearn
To tell you all, to stand for one brief space
Unfettered, soul to soul, as facew to face,
To crown you queen, my queen(king), till life shall end,
My lover and likewise my truest friend,
Would you love me, dearest, as fondly in return,
Could you but learn?

UNKNOWN

From
The Best Loved Poems of the American People
compiled and selected by Hazel Felleman.