Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CELESTIAL LOVE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI


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First Line: No mortal thing enthralled these longing eyes
Last Line: Our friends on earth, fairer in death on high.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo


No mortal thing enthralled these longing eyes
When perfect peace in thy fair face I found;
But far within, where all is holy ground,
My soul felt Love, her comrade of the skies:
For she was born with God in Paradise;
Nor all the shows of beauty shed around
This fair false world her wings to earth have bound:
Unto the Love of Loves aloft she flies.
Nay, things that suffer death, quench not the fire
Of deathless spirits; nor eternity
Serves sordid Time, that withers all things rare.
Not love but lawless impulse is desire:
That slays the soul; our love makes still more fair
Our friends on earth, fairer in death on high.






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