SURE LOVE is nothing less than Love, Yf it immortal doth not prove: Yet mighty LOVE to justifie Himself to be Himself, did dy. Sweet Mystery, which thus can be Immortal by Mortalitie! LOVE dy'd indeed, but by that Art Struck Death it self through Deaths own heart. LOVE dy'd; but rose again, to prove That though LOVE dy's, still LOVE is LOVE. Thus gains the glorious Phaenix by His sweet death, Immortality. O never then let the foule shame Of @3Change,@1 blott Loves eternal name; Nor fancy that in love thou wert With LOVE, yf from his love thou start : But since LOVE liv'd, & dy'd for Thee, Learn what thy love to LOVE must be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FABRIC OF LIFE by KAY RYAN AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by JOHN MILTON TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 1. MOONLIGHT NIGHT by RAINER MARIA RILKE |