I thought, because we had been friends so long, <br />That I knew all your dear lips dared intend <br />Before they dawned to speech. Our thoughts would blend, <br />I dreamed, like memories that faintly throng. <br />Your voice dwelt in me like an olden song. <br />Petal, I thought, from petal I could rend <br />The blossom of your soul, and at the end <br />Find still the same sweet fragrance. I was wrong. <br />Last evening in our eyes love brimmed to birth; <br />Our friendship faded, lost in passion's mist. <br />We had been strangers only! Here, close-caught <br />Against my heart the dim face I had sought <br />So long! And now the only thing on earth-- <br />Your piteous mouth, a-tremble to be kissed!<br /><br />Arthur Henry Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lovers-2/
