Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GREAT LOVE: 2. GREAT LOVE IS PROUD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: For very humbleness great love is proud
Last Line: Who for one royal moment entered there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


For very humbleness Great Love is proud:
The round world were a tribute thrice too small
To render to the rightful queen of all --
Yet why should Love's least gift be disavowed --
If once her royal head the queen has bowed,
Lending her gracious ear to the low call
Of him whose glory is to be her thrall --
Who only prays his worship be allowed?

Once to have known her fairness -- who is fair
Beyond the dreamer's dream, the painter's art --
This, only this, were bliss above compare:
But if he find the gateway to her heart,
Shall he not, like a king, be set apart
Who for one royal moment entered there?





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