Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S CONQUERING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD


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LOVE'S CONQUERING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If 't please you see how love's might overcame
Last Line: To choose a child for lord; for guide, the blind.
Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Wind; Youth; Optimism


IF't please you see how Love's might overcame,
How He attacked and how He conquered me,
How my heart burns and freezes for His glee,
How He doth make His Honor of my Shame;

If't please you see my youth running to claim
What brings it nought but pain and contumely,
Then come and read, and know the agony
Of which my Goddess and my God make game.

Then you shall know that Love is reasonless,
A sweet deceit, a dear imprisonment,
An empty hope that feeds us with the wind.

Then you shall know how great man's foolishness
And his delusion are, when he's content
To choose a child for lord; for guide, the blind.





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