Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP


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First Line: Philosophy has told the world
Last Line: And two are one forever.
Subject(s): Love; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul


PHILOSOPHY has told the world
What nature, God and man may be.
Come with the searching light of truth
And tell me now what love may be.

Is it the lonely mystery defying human thought?
Or will its definition open here the hidden lock
That holds beyond the reach of man's experient gaze
The fairy land of hope and joy enchanted by the heart?

Or must we wait to feel its stealing, glowing, placid charm,
Before the mind can e'en perceive what it is asked to tell?
Is it in vain that men will strive to give the soul
the native element in which it ever grows and thrives?

Shall logic or philosophy essay Pandora's box?
Shall Psyche linger here to bless instead of curse the race?
And yet is it the dark and misty thing behind the clouds.
That silent plays its hide and seek with human mind and heart?

No deeps can hide its vision here.
The soul is ever on the wing,
And sings in accents true and clear:
It is a wondrous simple thing.

A random word at dusk,
And in the silence ever,
A look, a sigh, a clasp,
And two are one forever.





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