Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ONCE & EVER, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: Sure love is nothing less than love Last Line: Learn what thy love to love must be. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life | ||||||||
SURE LOVE is nothing less than Love, Yf it immortal doth not prove: Yet mighty LOVE to justifie Himself to be Himself, did dy. Sweet Mystery, which thus can be Immortal by Mortalitie! LOVE dy'd indeed, but by that Art Struck Death it self through Deaths own heart. LOVE dy'd; but rose again, to prove That though LOVE dy's, still LOVE is LOVE. Thus gains the glorious Phaenix by His sweet death, Immortality. O never then let the foule shame Of Change, blott Loves eternal name; Nor fancy that in love thou wert With LOVE, yf from his love thou start : But since LOVE liv'd, & dy'd for Thee, Learn what thy love to LOVE must be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL by DENISE LEVERTOV LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 by HAYDEN CARRUTH WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE by BILLY COLLINS Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A CONCLUSORIE HUMNE TO THE SAME WEEK; & FOR MY FRIEND by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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