THE fair varieties of earth, The heavens serene and blue above, The rippling smile of mighty seas -- What is the charm of all, but love? By love they minister to thought, Love makes them breathe the poet's song; When their Creator best is prais'd, 'T is love inspires the adoring throng. Knowledge, and power, and will supreme, Are but celestial tyranny, Till they are consecrate by love, The essence of divinity. For love is strength, and faith, and hope; It crowns with bliss our mortal state; And, glancing far beyond the grave, Foresees a life of endless date. That life is love; and all of life Time or eternity can prove; Both men and angels, worms and gods, Exist in universal love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TIME TO BE WISE by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR UNDER THE OAK by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE THE DEFINITION OF LOVE by ANDREW MARVELL COMEDY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH FATA MORGANA by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS ONE PRAYER by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THREE MINUS ONE (REFRAIN SUGGESTED BY DR. RICHARD HOFFMAN) by BERTON BRALEY |