Love's Timidity
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
I do not ask to offer thee
A timid love like mine ;
I lay it, as the rose is laid,
On some immortal shrine.
I have no hope in loving thee,
I only ask to love ;
I brood upon my silent heart,
As on its nest the dove.
But little have I been beloved,
Sad, silent, and alone ;
And yet I feel, in loving thee,
The wide world is mine own.
Thine is the name I breathe to Heaven.
Thy face is on my sleep ;
I only ask that love like this
May pray for thee and weep.
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on June 19, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 455 |
Words | 98 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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