What poets say about love
part 25-Last Part
And the King with his golden sceptre,
The Pope with Saint Peter’s key,
Can never unlock the one little heart
That is opened only to me.
For I am the Lord of a Realm,
And I am Pope of a See;
Indeed I’m supreme in the kingdom
That is sitting, just now, on my knee.
C. H. Webb””The King and the Pope. 451
O, rank is good, and gold is fair,
And high and low mate ill;
But love has never known a law
Beyond its own sweet will!
Whittier””Amy Wentworth. St. 18. 452
“I’m sorry that I spell’d the word;
I hate to go above you,
Because”””the brown eyes lower fell,””
“Because, you see, I love you!”
Whittier””In School-Days. St. 4. 453
Your love in a cottage is hungry,
Your vine is a nest for flies””
Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,
And simplicity talks of pies!
You lie down to your shady slumber
And wake with a bug in your ear,
And your damsel that walks in the morning
Is shod like a mountaineer.
N. P. Willis””Low in a Cottage. St. 3. 454
He loves not well whose love is bold!
I would not have thee come too nigh.
The sun’s gold would not seem pure gold
Unless the sun were in the sky:
To take him thence and chain him near
Would make his beauty disappear.
William Winter””Love’s Queen. 455
The unconquerable pang of despised love.
Wordsworth””Excursion. Bk. VI. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. 456
For mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favourite be feeble woman’s breast.
Wordsworth””Laodamia. St. 15. 457
O dearer far than light and life are dear.
Wordsworth””Poems Founded on the Affections. No. XIX. To. ””””. VII. 114. 458
While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With “sober certainties” of love is blest.
Wordsworth””Poems Founded on the Affections. VII. 115. (Knight’s ed.) 459
Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.
Sir Thomas Wyatt””Songs and Sonnets. A Renouncing of Love. 460
Other Links:
What poets say about love (part 17)
What poets say about love (part 15)
What poets say about love (part 16)
What poets say about love (part 23)
What poets say about love (part 24)
