Reading 'n Romance

Just finished speed reading one of my favourite books...Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. I highly recommend it to anyone; it's such an amazing read! Wonderfully poignant and really satisfying. I consumed it within a few days of getting it out of the library. I hope to now start War of the Worlds :)

I've also been looking into some poetry, and went finding this one poem that I remember from when we studied poems back in school. It was one of Elizabeth Browning's sonnets and I just loved it as soon as I read it. It also had a painting next to it of a man and woman embracing near a sundial; it was just so romantic!

Well, here it is anyway!

Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife,
Shut in upon itself and do no harm
In this close hand of Love, now soft and warm,
And let us hear no sound of human strife
After the click of the shutting. Life to life--
I lean upon thee, Dear, without alarm,
And feel as safe as guarded by a charm
Against the stab of worldlings, who if rife
Are weak to injure. Very whitely still
The lilies of our lives may reassure
Their blossoms from their roots, accessible
Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer;
Growing straight, out of man's reach, on the hill.
God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

Sonnet 24, Elizabeth Barrett Browning