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If thou must love me... (Sonnet 14) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poems | poets.org Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Snow Fairy, Thy Word, Lily Bloom, Paper Light, American Poets, First Snow, Lilac Flowers

If thou must love me, let it be for noughtExcept for love's sake only. Do not say,"I love her for her smile—her look—her wayOf speaking gently,—for a trick of thoughtThat falls in well with mine, and certes broughtA sense of pleasant ease on such a day"— For these things in themselves, Belovèd, mayBe changed, or change for thee—and love, so wrought,May be unwrought so. Neither love me forThine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry:A creature might forget to weep, who boreThy comfort long, and…

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