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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT IS LOVE?, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poet's Biography First Line: What is love? I asked a lover Last Line: Desolation, devastation, %spoliation and uprooting! | |||
What is Love? I asked a lover - Liken it, he answered, weeping, To a flood unchained and sweeping Over shell-strewn grottoes, over Beds of roses, lilies, tulips, O'er all flowers that most enrich the Garden, in one headlong torrent, Till they shew a wreck from which the Eye and mind recoil abhorrent. Hearts may woo hearts, lips may woo lips, And gay days be spent in gladness, Dancing, feasting, lilting, luting, But the end of all is Sadness, Desolation, Devastation, Spoliation and Uprooting! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SIBERIA by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN DUHALLOW by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN SOUL AND COUNTRY by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN ST. PATRICK'S HYMN BEFORE TARAH by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN THE DAWNING OF THE DAY by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN THE KARAMANIAN EXILE by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN THE NAMELESS ONE; BALLAD by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN THE ONE MYSTERY by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN THE RUINS OF DONEGAL CASRLE by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN |
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