512. One Way of Love by Robert Browning
b'R Browning read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\nOne Way of Love\\nby Robert Browning (1812 \\u2013 1889)\\n\\n\\nAll June I bound the rose in sheaves.\\nNow, rose by rose, I strip the leaves\\nAnd strow them where Pauline may pass.\\nShe will not turn aside? Alas!\\nLet them lie. Suppose they die?\\nThe chance was they might take her eye.\\n\\nHow many a month I strove to suit\\nThese stubborn fingers to the lute!\\nTo-day I venture all I know.\\nShe will not hear my music? So!\\nBreak the string; fold music\\u2019s wing:\\nSuppose Pauline had bade me sing!\\n\\nMy whole life long I learn\\u2019d to love.\\nThis hour my utmost art I prove\\nAnd speak my passion - heaven or hell?\\nShe will not give me heaven? \\u2019T is well!\\nLose who may - I still can say,\\nThose who win heaven, bless\\u2019d are they!\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 2 June 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'