Love
The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, XXIV: The same continued
From The Poetical Works (1914), vol. I
Give me thy soul, Juliet, give me thy soul !
I am a bitter sea, which drinketh in
The sweetness of all waters, and so thine.
Thou, like a river, pure and swift and full
And freighted with the wealth of many lands,
With hopes, and fears, and death and life, dost roll
Against the troubled ocean of my sin.
Thou doubtest not, though on these desert sands
The billows surge against thee black with brine,
Unwearied. For thy love is fixed and even
And bears thee onward, and thy faith is whole.
Though thou thyself shouldst sin, yet surely Heaven
Hath held thee guiltless and thou art forgiven.
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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, XXIV: The same continued.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/81/.
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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, XXIV: The same continued.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/81/.
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