My Letters! all dead paper. . . (Sonnet XXVIII)
This said, I am thine—and so its ink has paled
Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring
To come and touch my hand
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Yes I wept for it—this . . . the papers light. . .
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My Letters! all dead paper. . . (Sonnet XXVIII)
If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!
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My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
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Said, Dear, I love thee; and I sank and quailed
With lying at my heart that beat too fast.
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This said—he wished to have me in his sight
As if Gods future thundered on my past.