I love thee — I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.

The speaker reduces language to its barest, most insistent declaration—“I love thee”—as if love exceeds what words can adequately express. The repetition suggests both urgency and helplessness: love is not a rhetorical performance but the only truth the speaker can utter. By calling it “my vision in the night” and “my dreaming in the day,” the poem frames love as an all-consuming mental presence that governs both sleep and waking life, collapsing the boundary between reality and imagination. The effect is to portray love less as a choice than as a persistent state of consciousness, haunting, sustaining, and defining the self.