Every Monday and Wednesday through Valentine’s Day, we will bring you one of our favorite love poems of all-time. Today, we present Christina Rossetti’s “I loved you first”. In the poem, Rossetti first worries about who loves the other more: her or her beloved. She resolves this anxiety by realizing that “one is both and both are one in love.” What makes you feel secure in your love like Christina Rossetti is? Tell us in the comments below!

“I loved you first”
by Christina Rossetti

I loved you first: but afterwards your love
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove.
Which owes the other most? my love was long,
And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong;
I loved and guessed at you, you construed me
And loved me for what might or might not be –
Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong.
For verily love knows not ‘mine’ or ‘thine;’
With separate ‘I’ and ‘thou’ free love has done,
For one is both and both are one in love:
Rich love knows nought of ‘thine that is not mine;’
Both have the strength and both the length thereof,
Both of us, of the love which makes us one.

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