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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S PRIDE, by HERBERT C. EVERETT First Line: What in the world is all this twaddle about Last Line: Had when, in eden, adam was begot! | |||
What in the world is all this twaddle about Some law of Love's anemic discipline, Into whose spiritual house may not come in Our bodies' passion! Shall we love without Desire? No longer give our flesh devout, Ecstatic adoration -- lest we sin? Shall we make chastity the javelin To bleed emotion white and ardor out? Dear flesh of ours that humbly serves and dies In love's fulfillment of our mind's desire And heart's demand, we rather, canonize Your love and wear it ever proudly, not In shame, -- proud of the passion God our Sire Had when, in Eden, Adam was begot! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RAND MCNALLY ATLAS by KAREN SWENSON CAVALIER TUNES: BOOT AND SADDLE by ROBERT BROWNING SONNET TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE HAMATREYA by RALPH WALDO EMERSON WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT? by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS TO MRS. MARTHA BLOUNT (ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1723) by ALEXANDER POPE SONGS OF TRAVEL: 2. YOUTH AND LOVE: 1 by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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