I Must Sing
I do love you more than anything on earth;
Each breath, within your presence, feels like spring.
I'd speak to you love's noblest words of worth,
But can't; life swells and swells till I must sing.
You walk across the floor and stun my eyes;
They cannot look away, far-off or near;
You spin into my arms like shooting skies,
Loud-laughing while I'm kissing sphere on sphere.
The beauty of your mouth's a glorious deed;
Your passion through it purchases my will.
I spend and spend and spend, I am all greed;
You take me wholly while I fill and fill.
There is some height of life, I surely know,
That none may view and leave, and not be sad.
But we leave not, we seize it high and low,
And until life be death our love of it be glad.
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