With My Senses, with My Heart …, Poem by Emile Verhaeren

Poem by Emile Verhaeren Period 19th century

With my senses, with my heart and my brain,
With my whole being stretched like a torch
Toward your goodness and toward your charity
Forever unfulfilled,
I love you and praise you and I thank you
For having come, one day, so simply,
By the paths of devotion,
To take, in your benevolent hands, my life.

Since that day,
I know, oh! what love
Candid and clear as the dew
Falls from you upon my quieted soul.

I feel I am yours, by all the burning bonds
That bind the flames to their blaze;
All my flesh, all my soul
Rises toward you, in an untiring impulse;
I never cease to remember at length
Your deep fervor and your charm,
So much so that, suddenly, I feel my eyes fill,
Deliciously, with unforgettable tears.

And I come to you, happy and recollected,
With the proud desire to be forever the one
Who is and will be to you the surest of joys.
All our tenderness blazes around us;
Every echo of my being responds to your call;
The hour is unique and solemnized with ecstasy
And my fingers tremble, just at brushing your forehead,
As if they touched there the wing of your thoughts.

Emile Verhaeren

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