If Thou Must Love Me... / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If Thou Must Love Me... If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, "I love her for her smile- her look- her way Of speaking gently,- for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee,- and love, so wrought, May be unwr..