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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OH, LOVE THOU TOO!, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poet's Biography First Line: The waves are all whisp'ring Last Line: "now love thou too!" Subject(s): Love | |||
THE waves are all whisp'ring, In moonlight clear, The sweetest of dance-tunes For nixies' ear; They laugh and they beckon, Each other woo, And say with their plashing: "Oh, love thou too!" In blossoming linden, Each year, a pair Of doves to their nestlings Show tender care; They're billing and cooing, Like lovers true, While twittering softly: "Oh, love thou too!" How surely the heaven The earth holds dear, E'en though it looks sometimes So dull and drear! Yet through the gray clouds breaks The sun anew, And laughingly greets with: "Oh, love thou too!" Wouldst know the real meaning Which love doth fold? Thou must the Redeemer's Image behold: "My life thee I've given, -- What wilt thou do? Oh, heart, restless throbbing, Now love thou too!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD |
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