THE fair varieties of earth, The heavens serene and blue above, The rippling smile of mighty seas -- What is the charm of all, but love? By love they minister to thought, Love makes them breathe the poet's song; When their Creator best is prais'd, 'T is love inspires the adoring throng. Knowledge, and power, and will supreme, Are but celestial tyranny, Till they are consecrate by love, The essence of divinity. For love is strength, and faith, and hope; It crowns with bliss our mortal state; And, glancing far beyond the grave, Foresees a life of endless date. That life is love; and all of life Time or eternity can prove; Both men and angels, worms and gods, Exist in universal love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RENUNCIATION by EDWARD DE VERE SONNET: 57 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 109 by PHILIP SIDNEY A MOTH FOUND ON THE FLOOR by EDNA M. BECKER GOD BLESS YOU, DEAR, TODAY by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) IN A LETTER TO A.R.C. ON HER WISHING TO BE CALLED ANNA by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS |