Love Me If I Live

LOVE me if I live!

   Love me if I die!

What to me is life or death,

   So that thou be nigh?

Once I loved thee rich,

   Now I love thee poor;

Ah! what is there I could not

   For thy sake endure?

Kiss me for my love!

   Pay me for my pain!

Come! and murmur in my ear

   How thou lov'st again!

Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter)

Index to poems in the collection by Barry Cornwall