John monologue (Act 1) — The Princess of Bagdad: A Play In Three Acts

How much I love you! You have in you all that is most strange and noble in this world. You have a power over me almost superhuman. I think of no one but you; I want nothing but you; I dream only of you. If I suspect, it is because I love you. When you are not here, I do not exist: when I find you again, I tremble like a child. I implore you never to trifle with that love,--so deep, and, yet, so troubled. I do not ask you to love me beyond your power of loving; but love none other more than me. You know not--I do not know myself--what the result might be. When I think of the future, I grow giddy. (_In a low, eager voice_) I adore you! I adore you!