Sonnet [Oh, Beauty, Passing Beauty! Sweetest Sweet!]

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Title:     Sonnet [Oh, Beauty, Passing Beauty! Sweetest Sweet!]
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson [More Titles by Tennyson]

Oh, Beauty, passing beauty! sweetest Sweet!
How canst thou let me waste my youth in sighs;
I only ask to sit beside thy feet.
Thou knowest I dare not look into thine eyes,
Might I but kiss thy hand! I dare not fold
My arms about thee--scarcely dare to speak.
And nothing seems to me so wild and bold,
As with one kiss to touch thy blessed cheek.
Methinks if I should kiss thee, no control
Within the thrilling brain could keep afloat
The subtle spirit. Even while I spoke,
The bare word KISS hath made my inner soul
To tremble like a lutestring, ere the note
Hath melted in the silence that it broke.

[The end]
Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem: Sonnet [oh, Beauty, Passing Beauty! Sweetest Sweet!]

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