A Love Song
D. H. Lawrence
1885 to 1930
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Reject me not if I should say to you
______ do forget the sounding of your voice,
I ______ forget your eyes that searching through
The mists ______ our marriage, and rejoice.
Yet, when the apple-blossom opens wide
Under the pallid moonlight’s fingering,
I ______ your blanched face at my breast, and hide
______ eyes from diligent work, malingering.
Ah, then, ______ my bedroom I do draw
The blind to ______ the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms ______ they straw
Their beauty for his taking, boon ______ boon.
And I do lift my aching ______ to you,
And I do lift my anguished, ______ breast,
And I do weep for very pain ______ you,
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, ______ rest.
And I do toss through the ______ night for you,
Dreaming your yielded mouth is ______ to mine,
Feeling your strong breast carry me ______ into
The peace where sleep is stronger even ______ wine.