If Must Love Me（1/1）

Elizabeth Barrett Browng

If thou t love , let it be for naught

Except for loves sake only. Do not say,

‘I love her for her sile—her look—her way

Of speakg gently,—for a trick of thought

That fallswell with e, aes brought

A sense of pleasant ease on such a day—’

For these thgstheselves, Beloved, ay

Be ged, e for thee—and love, sht,

May be unwrought so. her lovefor

The own dear pitys wipg y cheeks dry.

A creature ight fet to weep, who bore

Thy fort long, and lose thy love thereby!

But lovefor loves sake, that even ore

Thou ayst love on, through loves eternity.