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PASSION THAT SPRINGETH FROM GREAT LOVELINESS, by                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: This last doth aim at what is base and low
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of


Passion that springeth from great loveliness
Not always need be counted deadly sin,
If it doth melt the heart with tenderness
And let a ray celestial pierce within.
Love wakeneth, thrilleth, lendeth us his wing
For lofty flight, so tempering our vain fires
That they are likened to that primal ring
Whence the sad soul unto his God aspires.

The love of which I speak doth seek the sky,
Surpassing woman's love ; the wise, strong heart
Is with no other flame save this aglow.
One love draws to the earth and one on high ;
One in the soul, one in the sense hath part ;
This last doth aim at what is base and low.





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