<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Plighted</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!<br>Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:<br>Love given willingly, full and free,<br>Love for love's sake, - as mine to thee.<br>Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,<br>But Love, the master, goes in and out<br>Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,<br>Just as he please, - just as he please.<br>Mine, from the dear head's crown, brown-golden,<br>To the silken foot that's scarce beholden;<br>Give to a few friends hand or smile,<br>Like a generous lady, now and awhile,<br>But the sanctuary heart, that none dare win,<br>Keep holiest of holiest evermore;<br>The crowd in the aisles may watch the door,<br>The high-priest only enters in.<br>Mine, my own, without doubts or terrors,<br>With all thy goodnesses, all thy errors,<br>Unto me and to me alone revealed,<br>'A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.'<br>Many may praise thee, - praise mine as thine,<br>Many may love thee, - I'll love them too;<br>But thy heart of hearts, pure, faithful, and true,<br>Must be mine, mine wholly, and only mine.<br>Mine! - God, I thank Thee that Thou hast given<br>Something all mine on this side heaven:<br>Something as much myself to be<br>As this my soul which I lift to Thee:<br>Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone,<br>Life of my life, whom Thou dost make<br>Two to the world for the world's work's sake, -<br>But each unto each, as in Thy sight, one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dinah+Maria+Mulock+Craik">Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</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=368566" data-title="Plighted de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake, - as mine to thee. Duty's a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, the master, goes in and out Of his goodly..."></div> </div> </div>

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