LOVE'S an headstrong wild desireTo possess what we admire: Hurrying on without reflecting, All that's just or wise neglecting. Pain or pleasure it is neither, But excess of both together; Now, addressing, cringing, whining, Vowing, fretting, weeping, pining, Murm'ring, languishing and sighing, Mad, despairing, raving, dying: Now, caressing, laughing, toying, Fondling, kissing and enjoying. Always in extremes abiding, Without measure, fond or chiding: Either furious with possessing, Or despairing of the blessing: Now transported; now tormented; Still uneasy; ne'er contented. None can tell its rise or progress, Or its ingress or its egress, Whether by a look produced, Or by sympathy infused. Fancy does so well maintain it, Weaker reason can't restrain it, But is forced to fly before it, Or else worship and adore it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY GARDEN by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN A BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM) by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 5 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TIME TO RISE by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE DEATH OF ADONIS by THEOCRITUS THE CASTLE BY THE SEA by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND |