Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS: 1., by LOUISE ABNEY First Line: I love you with a passion - holy, deep - Last Line: But paradise is ours if you would stay. Subject(s): Desire; Love | ||||||||
I love you with a passion -- holy, deep -- Not altogether free from warm desire, But with a passion purified, as fire Consumes the dross and seeks the gold to keep. My love for you transcends such petty things As searing jealousy . . . embittered words; With the unfettered certainty of birds It soars aloft on unfurled, silver wings. This love I bear has been my sole concern; I have not reckoned what you bring to me Nor asked of you a pledged fidelity; My only care is that my altar burn. If you would go, I could not say you nay; But paradise is ours if you would stay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. OF PLEASURE AND PAIN by THOMAS CAMPION THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE, DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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