Love
The Love-Letter
From My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889)
Love
The Lover felt a warm wave coming
Before her Written Message came;
The World within and round him blooming
Burst into a flower of fragrant flame:
As if with mouth to mouth he met her;
Or, as two Spirits meet above:
" If such a Wave foreran her letter,
How deep the ocean of her love."
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Codex Note
From the section "Lyrics of Love" of My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889).
Cite this poem
MLA
Massey, Gerald. “The Love-Letter.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/243/.
Chicago
Massey, Gerald. “The Love-Letter.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/243/.
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