REPROVE not love, though fondly thou hast lost Greater hopes by loving: Love calms ambitious spirits, from their breasts Danger oft removing: Let lofty humours mount up on high, Down again like to the wind, While private thoughts, vowed to love, More peace and pleasure find. Love and sweet beauty makes the stubborn mild, And the coward fearless; The wretched miser's care to bounty turns, Cheering all things cheerless. Love chains the earth and heaven, Turns the spheres, guides the years in endless peace; The flowery earth through his power Receives her due increase. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DUNES OF INDIANA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE SHELL TO THE PEARL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER ALNWICK CASTLE by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK THE WANDER-LOVERS by RICHARD HOVEY FRENCH REVOLUTION; AS IT APPEARED TO ENTHUSIASTS AT ITS COMMENCEMENT by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 42. AL-JAMIL by EDWIN ARNOLD |