Get Your Premium Membership

When I should be asleep to mine own voice

When I should be asleep to mine own voice

In telling thee how much thy love's my dream,

I find me listening to myself, the noise

Of my words othered in my hearing them.

Yet wonder not: this is the poet's soul.

I could not tell thee well of how I love,

Loved I not less by knowing it, were all

My self my love and no thought love to prove.

What consciousness makes more by consciousness,

It makes less, for it makes it less itself,

My sense of love could not my love rich-dress

Did it not for it spend love's own love-pelf.

Poet's love's this (as in these words I prove thee):

I love my love for thee more than I love thee.

Poem by Fernando Pessoa
Biography | Poems | Best Poems | Short Poems | Quotes | Email Poem - When I should be asleep to mine own voiceEmail Poem | Create an image from this poem

Poems are below...



Summaries, Analysis, and Information on "When I should be asleep to mine own voice"

Sorry, no articles found.

More Information

More Poems by Fernando Pessoa


Book: Reflection on the Important Things