Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 5. PRELUDE. LOVE IN TEARS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If fate love's dear ambition mar Last Line: More generous, dignified, and pure. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of | ||||||||
If fate Love's dear ambition mar, And load his breast with hopeless pain, And seem to blot out sun and star, Love, won or lost, is countless gain; His sorrow boasts a secret bliss Which sorrow of itself beguiles, And Love in tears too noble is For pity, save of Love in smiles. But, looking backward through his tears, With vision of maturer scope, How often one dead joy appears The platform of some better hope! And, let us own, the sharpest smart Which human patience may endure Pays light for that which leaves the heart More generous, dignified, and pure. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RESCUE THE DEAD by DAVID IGNATOW BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 27 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 30 by JAMES JOYCE HE WHO KNOWS LOVE by ELSA BARKER LOVE'S HUMBLENESS by ELSA BARKER SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE) by APHRA BEHN A LONDON FETE by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE |
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