+- Sonett-Forum (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum)
+-- Forum: Sonett-Archiv (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=126)
+--- Forum: Sonette aus germanischen Sprachen (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=394)
+---- Forum: Englische Sonette (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=818)
+----- Forum: Autoren T (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=846)
+------ Forum: Lord Tennyson, Alfred (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=924)
+------ Thema: If I were loved, as I desire to be, (/showthread.php?tid=14500)
If I were loved, as I desire to be, - ZaunköniG - 21.05.2007
If I were loved, as I desire to be,
What is there in the great sphere of the earth,
And range of evil between death and birth,
That I should fear,--if I were loved by thee?
All the inner, all the outer world of pain
Clear Love would pierce and cleave, if thou wert mine
As I have heard that, somewhere in the main,
Fresh-water springs come up through bitter brine.
'T were joy, not fear, claspt hand-in-hand with thee,
To wait for death--mute--careless of all ills,
Apart upon a mountain, tho' the surge
Of some new deluge from a thousand hills
Flung leagues of roaring foam into the gorge
Below us, as far on as eye could see.