What in the world is all this twaddle about Some law of Love's anemic discipline, Into whose spiritual house may not come in Our bodies' passion! Shall we love without Desire? No longer give our flesh devout, Ecstatic adoration -- lest we sin? Shall we make chastity the javelin To bleed emotion white and ardor out? Dear flesh of ours that humbly serves and dies In love's fulfillment of our mind's desire And heart's demand, we rather, canonize Your love and wear it ever proudly, not In shame, -- proud of the passion God our Sire Had when, in Eden, Adam was begot! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREAT CAROUSAL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER SONNET: ON FAME (1) by JOHN KEATS CUBA LIBRA [APRIL, 1896] by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER ROBIN REDBREAST by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM CHRIST THE CONSOLER by HENRY WILLIAMS BAKER DOG AND CAT by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT TO HIS LATE MAJESTY, CONCERNING..TRUE FORM OF ENGLISH POETRY by JOHN BEAUMONT |