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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT ALL THE GOOD WE LOVE, by JOHN DAVIES (1565-1618) Poet Analysis First Line: Although we do not all the good we love, Last Line: Is love that burns, but burns like painted fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Welsh Poet; Davies Of Hereford, John | |||
Although we do not all the good we love, But still, in love, desire to do the same; Nor leave the sins we hate, but hating move Our soul and body's powers their powers to tame; The good we do God takes as done aright, That we desire to do he takes as done; The sin we shun he will with grace requite, And not impute the sin we seek to shun. But good desires produce no worser deeds, For God doth both together lightly give, Because he knows a righteous man must needs By faith, that works by love, forever live. Then to do nought but only in desire Is love that burns, but burns like painted fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOME BLAZE THE PRECIOUS BEAUTIES OF THEIR LOVES by JOHN DAVIES (1565-1618) BUTTERED PIPPIN-PIES by JOHN DAVIES (1565-1618) SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 1. AFTER GRAVE ILLNESS by CAROL FROST FOUR-LEAF CLOVER by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE; A SONG IN CHINESE TAPESTRIES by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY THE CHALLENGE by ALEXANDER POPE AN ANGLER'S WISH by HENRY VAN DYKE INTROSPECTION by GEORGE ARNOLD THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A VISION by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON SONNET ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT RIDDELL, ESQ. by ROBERT BURNS THE ABIDING BURG (DEDICATION: TO THE SMALL TOWNS OF CHRISTENDOM) by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE |
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