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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FREEDOM AND LOVE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How delicious is the winning Last Line: In the knot there's no untying. Variant Title(s): The First Kiss Subject(s): Love - Beginnings | |||
HOW delicious is the winning Of a kiss at love's beginning. When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying! Yet remember, midst your wooing, Love has bliss, but love has ruing; Other smiles may make you fickle, Tears for other charms may trickle. Love he comes, Love he tarries, Just as fate or fancy carries, -- Longest stays when sorest chidden, Laughs and flies when pressed and bidden. Bind the sea to slumber stilly, Bind its odor to the lily, Bind the aspen ne'er to quiver, -- Then bind Love to last forever! Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel; Love's wing moults when caged and captured, -- Only free he soars enraptured. Can you keep the bee from ranging, Or the ring-dove's neck from changing? No! nor fettered Love from dying In the knot there's no untying. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHY I MIGHT GO TO THE NEXT FOOTBALL GAME by DENIS JOHNSON THE POOL by ALEXANDER ANDERSON COZY APOLOGIA; FOR FRED by RITA DOVE YOU NOW HOLDING THIS BOOK IN HAND by ALICE NOTLEY FALLING IN LOVE IN SPAIN OR MEXICO by RON PADGETT WHEN LOVE WAS BORN by SARA TEASDALE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC by THOMAS CAMPBELL DOWNFALL OF POLAND [FALL OF WARSAW, 1794] by THOMAS CAMPBELL |
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