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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Lyrics and Verse Tales. II. “Thank You”

Emily H. Hickey (1845–1924)

  • “Comme vous êtes bon …”
  • “Non, je t’aime,
  • Voilà tout.”
  • VICTOR HUGO

    • WHY do you thank me, dear;

    Say I am kind?

    Sometimes, alas, I fear

    You must be blind.

    Say, does the sun give thanks

    To the flowers that lift

    Glad faces on hedgerow banks

    In the light, his gift?

    Are thanks for your right hand meet

    When it serves your need?

    Do you ever bless your feet

    Because of their speed?

    Do you thank your eyes that see,

    Or your ears that hear?

    Then why give thanks to me,

    My dear, my dear?

    Do you know that you, yes, you

    Are light to mine eyes?

    I love you, love you true—

    How otherwise?

    You let me into your heart,

    Do you not know?

    You made me of life a part

    A while ago.

    What matters what I may do,

    Or what I may give?

    You know I would die for you,

    As for you I live.

    Then let me breathe with your breath,

    To your need respond,

    Till we come to the gates of death

    And the strange beyond.


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