Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SONNET, by CLIFFORD ALLEN First Line: Love for love's sake, like art for art's, belies Last Line: Love wishes well, or it is no such thing. Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) | ||||||||
Love for love's sake, like art for art's, belies its very nature. There are none who know the abstract spirit save the ones who go dreaming beyond our world and through our skies! Love for the sake of all creation dies, if die it must, in labored art to show integrity with earthly forms, and lo! an abstract truth is glimpsed by concrete eyes. Since I love you, and wish you only well, I am the artist laboring to say love dies in this -- there is no other way. And, by this token, not to threaten hell, love lives in this, that living it may sing love wishes well, or it is no such thing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? by ANSELM HOLLO RETICENT SONNET by ANNE CARSON SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE NATURAL FIRE by CLIFFORD ALLEN |
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