You Love Me You Are Sure
poem 156
You Love Me You Are Sure - meaning Summary
Fear of Love's Loss
The poem presents a speaker who seeks clear reassurance of a beloved’s constancy to avoid the dread of sudden abandonment. She imagines waking to find affection and domestic signs—sunrise, orchards, the presence of Dollie—gone, and fears being surprised by loss. Preferring candid confirmation now, she says she can endure the pain better if warned than be hurt again after she has begun to heal. The tone mixes pleading and pragmatic resolve: the speaker asks for honest certainty to manage vulnerability and forestall recurring emotional injury.
Read Complete AnalysesYou love me you are sure I shall not fear mistake I shall not cheated wake Some grinning morn To find the Sunrise left And Orchards unbereft And Dollie gone! I need not start you’re sure That night will never be When frightened home to Thee I run To find the windows dark And no more Dollie mark Quite none? Be sure you’re sure you know I’ll bear it better now If you’ll just tell me so Than when a little dull Balm grown Over this pain of mine You sting again!
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