A Man's Requirements

Love me Sweet, with all thou art,
...Feeling, thinking, seeing;
Love me in the lightest part,
...Love me in full being.

Love me with thine open youth
...In its frank surrender;
With the vowing of thy mouth,
...With its silence tender.

Love me with thine azure eyes,
...Made for earnest granting;
Taking colour from the skies,
...Can Heaven's truth be wanting?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning