Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE, by GEORGE PEELE


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First Line: What thing is love? -- for sure love is a thing
Last Line: That mars with venus play'd even and odd.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


WHAT thing is love?—for sure love is a thing:—
Love is a prick, love is a sting,
Love is a pretty, pretty thing;
Love is a fire, love is a coal,
Whose flame creeps in at every hole;
And, as myself can best devise,
His dwelling is in ladies' eyes,
From whence he shoots his dainty darts
Into the lusty gallants' hearts;
And ever since was call'd a god

That Mars with Venus play'd even and odd.





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