(Poem) If You But Knew

If you but knew...

How all my days seemed filled with dreams of you

How sometimes in the silent night

Your eyes thrill through me with their tender light

How oft I hear your voice when others speak

How you ‘mid other forms I seek

Oh, love more real than though such dreams were true

If you but knew…

Could you but guess

How you alone make all my happiness

How I am more than willing for your sake

To stand alone, give all, and nothing take

Nor chafe to think you bound, while I am free

Quite free, till death to love you silently

Could you but guess…

Could you but learn

How when you doubt my truth I sadly yearn

To tell you all, to stand for one brief space

Unfettered, soul to soul, and face to face

To crown you king, my king, till life shall end

My lover and likewise, my truest friend

Would you love me, dearest, as fondly in return

Could you but learn ?