Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


THE NAME OF LOVE by WILLIAM ROSE BENET

Poet Analysis

First Line: O LOVE, A THOUSAND, THOUSAND VOICES
Last Line: THE EXALTATION OF YOUR NAME!
Subject(s): LOVE;

O Love, a thousand, thousand voices,
From night to dawn, from dawn to night,
Have cried the passion of their choices
To orb your name and keep it bright,

Until, however tides may vary
At neap or ebb of life and breath,
Your influence is planetary
Upon this body of our death,

And that dark sea that takes the dying
Kindles along its coasts to flame
For thousand, thousand voices crying
The exaltation of your name!



Home: PoetryExplorer.net