SURE LOVE is nothing less than Love, Yf it immortal doth not prove: Yet mighty LOVE to justifie Himself to be Himself, did dy. Sweet Mystery, which thus can be Immortal by Mortalitie! LOVE dy'd indeed, but by that Art Struck Death it self through Deaths own heart. LOVE dy'd; but rose again, to prove That though LOVE dy's, still LOVE is LOVE. Thus gains the glorious Phaenix by His sweet death, Immortality. O never then let the foule shame Of @3Change,@1 blott Loves eternal name; Nor fancy that in love thou wert With LOVE, yf from his love thou start : But since LOVE liv'd, & dy'd for Thee, Learn what thy love to LOVE must be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEMOS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON OCTAVES: 21 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CORONATION by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON THE WHITE SHIPS AND THE RED by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER BYRON by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER TO JANE: THE INVITATION by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |