Mine Eyes Were Swift To Know Thee

Read 'Mine Eyes Were Swift To Know Thee' by 'Robert Louis Stevenson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

Mine Eyes Were Swift To Know Thee by Robert Louis Stevenson

 MINE eyes were swift to know thee, and my heart
As swift to love. I did become at once
Thine wholly, thine unalterably, thine
In honourable service, pure intent,
Steadfast excess of love and laughing care:
And as she was, so am, and so shall be.
I knew thee helpful, knew thee true, knew thee
And Pity bedfellows: I heard thy talk
With answerable throbbings. On the stream,
Deep, swift, and clear, the lilies floated; fish
Through the shadows ran. There, thou and I
Read Kindness in our eyes and closed the match.

Form: Blank verse

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