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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE, by HENRY BAKER First Line: Love's an headstrong wild desire / to possess what we admire Last Line: Or else worship and adore it. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Passion; Pleasure; Worship | |||
LOVE'S an headstrong wild desireTo possess what we admire: Hurrying on without reflecting, All that's just or wise neglecting. Pain or pleasure it is neither, But excess of both together; Now, addressing, cringing, whining, Vowing, fretting, weeping, pining, Murm'ring, languishing and sighing, Mad, despairing, raving, dying: Now, caressing, laughing, toying, Fondling, kissing and enjoying. Always in extremes abiding, Without measure, fond or chiding: Either furious with possessing, Or despairing of the blessing: Now transported; now tormented; Still uneasy; ne'er contented. None can tell its rise or progress, Or its ingress or its egress, Whether by a look produced, Or by sympathy infused. Fancy does so well maintain it, Weaker reason can't restrain it, But is forced to fly before it, Or else worship and adore it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL by CLAUDE MCKAY LITTLE WHITE CHURCH by MARILYN NELSON A STEEPLE ON THE HOUSE by ROBERT FROST MATE (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ANSWER TO PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by GEORGE SANTAYANA A SERIOUS REFLECTION ON HUMAN LIFE, SELECTION by HENRY BAKER |
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