I will not let thee go. <br />Ends all our month-long love in this? <br />Can it be summed up so, <br />Quit in a single kiss? <br />I will not let thee go. <br /> <br />I will not let thee go. <br />If thy words' breath could scare thy deeds, <br />As the soft south can blow <br />And toss the feathered seeds, <br />Then might I let thee go. <br /> <br />I will not let thee go. <br />Had not the great sun seen, I might; <br />Or were he reckoned slow <br />To bring the false to light, <br />Then might I let thee go. <br /> <br />I will not let thee go. <br />The stars that crowd the summer skies <br />Have watched us so below <br />With all their million eyes, <br />I dare not let thee go. <br /> <br />I will not let thee go. <br />Have we chid the changeful moon, <br />Now rising late, and now <br />Because she set too soon, <br />And shall I let thee go? <br /> <br />I will not let thee go. <br />Have not the young flowers been content, <br />Plucked ere their buds could blow, <br />To seal our sacrament? <br />I cannot let thee go. <br /> <br />I will not let thee go. <br />I hold thee by too many bands: <br />Thou sayest farewell, and lo! <br />I have thee by the hands, <br />And will not let thee go.<br /><br />Robert Seymour Bridges<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-will-not-let-thee-go/
