Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE AND MARRIAGE, by THOMAS MOORE


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First Line: Still the question I must parry
Last Line: If we're by compulsion blest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


STILL the question I must parry,
Still a wayward truant prove:
Where I love, I must not marry;
Where I marry, cannot love.

Were she fairest of creation,
With the least presuming mind:
Learned without affectation;
Not deceitful, yet refined;

Wise enough, but never rigid;
Gay, but not too lightly free;
Chaste as snow, and yet not frigid;
Warm, yet satisfied with me:

Were she all this ten times over,
All that Heaven to earth allows,
I should be too much her lover
Ever to become her spouse.

Love will never bear enslaving;
Summer garments suit him best;
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.





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