I Want to Die While You Love Me + 

I want to die while you love me, + 

While yet you hold me fair, + 

While laughter lies upon my lips + 

And lights are in my hair. + 

I want to die while you love me + 

And bear to that still bed + 

Your kisses⁠—turbulent, unspent, + 

To warm me when I’m dead. + 

I want to die while you love me + 

Oh, who would care to live, + 

’Til love has nothing more to ask + 

And nothing more to give. + 