TELL me, heart, that feels aflame, What is love, that mystic name?-- Spirits twain, whose thought is one; Hearts that beat in unison. Whence comes love? now tell me this.-- For love's birth no reason is.-- What, then, maketh love to rove?-- If it doth, it is not love. What the sign true loving gives?-- Life that in another lives.-- And what feats attest its glow?-- True love makes but little show. How doth love increase its store?-- Giving ever more and more.-- In what words adorns its thought?-- Love loves, and protesteth nought. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMEDAY BOOK: MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND by THOMAS CAMPBELL IN THE GARDEN (1) by EMILY DICKINSON THE BOOK OF MARTYRS by EMILY DICKINSON SONNET PREFIXED TO 'THE COMMONWEALTH & GOVERNMENT OF VENICE' by EDMUND SPENSER THE COLLEGE, 1917 by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG |