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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT IS LOVE?, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "a love all-commanding, all-withstanding" Last Line: To her who will not have them Subject(s): Love | |||
A love all-commanding, all-withstanding Through a year is my love; A grief darkly hiding, starkly biding Without let or remove; Of strength a sharp straining, past sustaining Wheresoever I rove, A force still extending without ending Before and around and above. Of Heaven 'tis the brightest amazement, The blackest abasement of Hell, A struggle for breath with a spectre, In nectar a choking to death; 'Tis a race with Heaven's lightning and thunder, Then Champion Feats under Moyle's water; 'Tis pursuing the cuckoo, the wooing Of Echo, the Rock's airy daughter. Till my red lips turn ashen, My light limbs grow leaden, My heart loses motion, In Death my eyes deaden, So is my love and my passion, So is my ceaseless devotion To her to whom I gave them. To her who will not have them. | 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 |
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