Love Me Sweet was written to accompany the romantic climax of the television mini-series The Battlers (produced in 1993 for ATN Channel 7) based on the Kylie Tennant novel of the same name. The song had to encapsulate an overwhelming sense of emotional fulfilment while maintaining sufficient realism to remain true to Ms Tennant's vision.

This is the only part of the film to use song, arising from the temporary placement of a popular song at this point to assist the film editor. The text is adapted freely from the first two verses of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem, A Man's Requirements. Ms Browning's poem is a marvel of economy and wit, with an ironic twist in its tail emerging only at the end of the last verse. Words were changed to assist vocalisation and comprehension, as well as to provide a more clearly adoring context for the song.

Love Me Sweet

Love me sweet, with all your heart,
Feeling, thinking, seeing;
Love me with your lightest glance,
Love me in full being.

Love me with your open arms,
In their frank surrender;
With the vowing of your lips,
in their silence tender.

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"A Man's Requirements", by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(first two verses)

Love me Sweet, with all thou art,
Feeling, thinking, seeing;
Love me in the lightest part,
Love me in full being.

Love me with thine open youth
In its frank surrender;
With the vowing of thy mouth,
With its silence tender.

(eleventh, and final, verse …)
Thus, if thou wilt prove me, Dear,
Woman's love no fable,
I will love thee -- half a year --
As a man is able.