V
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of O Love, Love, Love!
My whole soul waiting silently,
All naked in a sultry sky,
Droops blinded with his shining eye,
I will possess him or will die.
I will grow round him in his place,
Grow—live—die looking on his face,
Die, dying clasped in his embrace.