Persuasion(excerpt) 劝导(节选) - Life with poems 睡前读物英文美文诗歌|睡前的安眠曲

Persuasion(excerpt) Jane Austen I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach.  You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.  I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.  Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.  You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. —Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must...