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Suddenly I am still and thou art there,  A viewless visitant and unbesought,  And all my thinking trembles into nought And all my being opens like a prayer.

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

For it is deadly sin to love too well, And unappeased, unhonour'd, unbesought, To feed on dreams; and yet 'tis aptly thought That all must love.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric