Christina Rossetti - Monna Innominata, Sonnet 4 ("I loved you first...") lyrics

"Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda." --Dante. "Ogni altra cosa, ogni pensier va fore, E sol ivi con voi rimansi amore."--Petrarca. I loved you first: but afterwards your love Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove. Which owes the other most? my love was long, And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong; I loved and guessed at you, you construed me And loved me for what might or might not be-- Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong. For verily love knows not "mine" or "thine;" With separate "I" and "thou" free love has done, For one is both and both are one in love: Rich love knows nought of "thine that is not mine;" Both have the strength and both the length thereof, Both of us of the love which makes us one.