If yet I have not all thy love, <br />Dear, I shall never have it all, <br />I cannot breathe one other sigh, to move, <br />Nor can entreat one other tear to fall, <br />And all my treasure, which should purchase thee, <br />Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters I have spent. <br />Yet no more can be due to me, <br />Than at the bargain made was meant; <br />If then thy gift of love were partial, <br />That some to me, some should to others fall, <br />Dear, I shall never have thee all. <br /> <br />Or if then thou gavest me all, <br />All was but all, which thou hadst then; <br />But if in thy heart, since, there be or shall <br />New love created be, by other men, <br />Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears, <br />In sighs, in oaths, and letters outbid me, <br />This new love may beget new fears, <br />For, this love was not vowed by thee. <br />And yet it was, thy gift being general; <br />The ground, thy heart, is mine, whatever shall <br />Grow there, dear, I should have it all. <br /> <br />Yet I would not have all yet; <br />He that hath all can have no more, <br />And since my love doth every day admit <br />New growth, thou shouldst have new rewards in store; <br />Thou canst not every day give me thy heart, <br />If thou canst give it, then thou never gavest it: <br />Love's riddles are, that though thy heart depart, <br />It stays at home, and thou with losing savest it: <br />But we will have a way more liberal, <br />Than changing hearts, to join them, so we shall <br />Be one, and one another's all.<br /><br />John Donne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-infiniteness-2/
