Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE STAR OF HOPE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE


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THE STAR OF HOPE, by                    
First Line: Love is not love that can admit despair!
Last Line: Griefs that no time can ever reconcile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism


LOVE is not Love that can admit despair!
For Love is born of Hope, and Hope is fair;
With that sole Star to light the pilgrim's way,
No life were loveless, tho' Love say him 'Nay.'

What tho' the World may pass him by with scorn,
Life without Love were surely more forlorn!
He that hath look'd upon Love's guiding Star,
Knows that it never sets—but burns afar!

Tho' Love shall never here his guerdon find,
Love leaves his own sweet recompense behind;
For but to love—is to forget the while
Griefs that no Time can ever reconcile.





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