REPROVE not love, though fondly thou hast lost Greater hopes by loving: Love calms ambitious spirits, from their breasts Danger oft removing: Let lofty humours mount up on high, Down again like to the wind, While private thoughts, vowed to love, More peace and pleasure find. Love and sweet beauty makes the stubborn mild, And the coward fearless; The wretched miser's care to bounty turns, Cheering all things cheerless. Love chains the earth and heaven, Turns the spheres, guides the years in endless peace; The flowery earth through his power Receives her due increase. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES TO HANNAH AND PHOEBE by BERNARD BARTON TO AN ABSENT FRIEND by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 12. TO YONE NOGUCHI by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR by FRANK GELETT BURGESS |