ANGELIC love that stoops with heavenly lips To meet its earthly mate; Heroic love that to its sphere's eclipse Can dare to join its fate With one beloved devoted human heart, And share with it the passion and the smart, The undying bliss Of its most fleeting kiss; The fading grace Of its most sweet embrace: -- Angelic love, heroic love! Whose birth can only be above, Whose wandering must be on earth, Whose haven where it first had birth! Love that can part with all but its own worth, And joy in every sacrifice That beautifies its Paradise! And gently, like a golden-fruited vine, With earnest tenderness itself consign, And creeping up deliriously entwine Its dear delicious arms Round the beloved being! With fair unfolded charms, All-trusting, and all-seeing, -- Grape-laden with full bunches of young wine! While to the panting heart's dry yearning drouth Buds the rich dewy mouth -- Tenderly uplifted, Like two rose-leaves drifted Down in a long warm sigh of the sweet South! Such love, such love is thine, Such heart is mine, O thou of mortal visions most divine! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ASOLANDO: NOW by ROBERT BROWNING THE SELF-UNSEEING by THOMAS HARDY PICCADILLY CIRCUS AT NIGHT: STREETWALKERS by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE TO MY OLD COAT by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER SONG. THESE PRAIRIES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 64 by BLISS CARMAN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. UNDERNEATH AND AFTER ALL by EDWARD CARPENTER |