<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341452" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Spiritual Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could you but give me all that I desire,<br>I should be richer, and you no more poor,<br>Companionship beside the household fire,<br>And common cares that train one to endure.<br>'Tis not your senses, but your self, I want,<br>Kinship of vision, sympathy of mind,<br>That so the bond be based on adamant,<br>And Love made fast by sanctities that bind.<br>Yet do not think insensible my gaze<br>To delicate loveliness of form and face,<br>But that I covet in the same embrace<br>The Spirit's yearnings with the body's grace.<br>Give me all these, and add, with lengthening years,<br>The sweet sad smile, and piety of tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341452" data-title="Spiritual Love de Alfred Austin" data-description="Could you but give me all that I desire, I should be richer, and you no more poor, Companionship beside the household fire, And common cares that train one to endure. 'Tis not your senses, but your self, I want, Kinship of vision, sympathy of mind..."></div> </div> </div>

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