The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Song ("My heart to thy heart")

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

For other versions of this work, see Song (Dunbar, "My heart to thy heart").

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My heart to thy heart,
  My hand to thine;
My lip to thy lips,
  Kisses are wine
Brewed for the lover in sunshine and shade;
Let me drink deep, then, my African maid.

Lily to lily,
  Rose unto rose;
My love to thy love
  Tenderly grows.
Rend not the oak and the ivy in twain,
Nor the swart maid from her swarthier swain.