My Only Love, So Long Desired!, Poem by Charles D'Orléans

My only love, so long desired,
My comfort, my sweet thought,
Fair beyond compare, without peer,
It displeases me to write to you.

For I would rather say it
By mouth, without sending it to you,
My only love, so long desired,
My comfort, my sweet thought!

Alas! now I cannot deny it;
But Hope makes me endure,
Who has promised to return
To joy, my grievous martyrdom,
My only love, so long desired!

Charles D’Orléans

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