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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE (1), by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: O love! - that love which comes so stealthily Last Line: Than we, are not more desolate and sad! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Love | |||
O LOVE! -- that love which comes so stealthily, And takes us up, and twists us as it will -- What fever'd hours of agony 'twill bring! How oft we wake and cry: "God set me free Of love -- to never love again!" And still We fall, and clutch it by the knees, and cling And press our lips -- and so, once more are glad! And if it go, or if it never come, Through what a grieving wilderness of pain We travel on! In prisons stripped of light We blindly grope, and wander without home. The friendless winds that sweep across the plain -- The beggars meeting us at silent night -- Than we, are not more desolate and sad! | 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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