Zora Bernice May Cross

Here you will find the Poem Love Sonnet XVII of poet Zora Bernice May Cross

Love Sonnet XVII

Beloved, lest I should remember, I
Must swift forget the wonder of last night.
Hot memory would but blacken out my sight
And dull my senses till they seemed to die.
How could I live, remembering that sigh?
That breath?that sob?that all sublime delight?
Eternal joy is death, I think, and might
Not such sweet madness kill me, coming nigh?

I died with you that hour. Or, if not, merged
Myself in you, commingling all my life
Within your own, until I fled and fled
Into your blood; and my pure pulses surged,
Heaped with the wedded bliss of man and wife?
Dying, I lived?and living, I was dead.