|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT IS LOVE, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "tell me, heart, that feels aflame" Last Line: "love loves, and protesteth nought" Subject(s): Love | |||
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...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 TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
| |