@3Question.@1 BY what power was love confin'd To one object? Who can bind, Or fix a limit to the free-born mind? @3Answer.@1 Move at once but in one way, So nor can minds to more than one love stray. @3Question.@1 Love's twinn'd flame, his forked dart. @3Answer.@1 @3Question.@1 @3Question.@1 Should th' effect not multiply As fast i' th' heart, as doth the cause i' th' eye? @3Answer.@1 Sense preferring neither fair, Desire stands still, distracted 'twixt the pair. So in equal distance lay Two fair lambs in the wolf's way: The hungry beast will starve ere choose his prey. But where one is chief, the rest Cease, and that's alone possess'd, Without a rival, monarch of the breast. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE CARPENTER'S SHOP by SARA TEASDALE THE DEATH OF LEONIDAS by GEORGE CROLY THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE by THOMAS HARDY AN ODE IN IMITATION OF ALCAEUS by WILLIAM JONES MILK FOR THE CAT by HAROLD MONRO THE GRAVE OF LOVE by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK NO SECOND TROY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS METAMORPHOSES: 11. INVOCATION OF ISIS by LUCIUS APULEIUS URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE SECOND CANTO, OR FIRST QUARTER by WILLIAM BASSE |