Beloved, May Your Sleep be Sound

A love poem

Beloved, may your sleep be sound
As on a quiet curtained loft
Of such a down as does make soft
Your dreams and peaceful thoughts around.

If I had pow'r to send a word!
A word so perfect in its form
That anxious fears would flee your world
And tax your lovely soul no more.

Alas, I have not such a power
For fear does grip my edges too
But greater one than I, said true
That fear can't live where love does flower.

Beloved wrack your soul for love
For though we love there is one higher
That ours is just a picture of
Like sudden spark is to a fire.