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EROS: 7 by HILDA DOOLITTLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT NEED OF A LAMP
Last Line: LOVE MUST FIRST SHATTER US.
Subject(s): BIBLE; LOVE - NATURE OF;
What need of a lamp
when day lightens us,
what need to bind love
when love stands
with such radiant wings over us?

What need --
yet to sing love,
love must first shatter us.



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