Love is alone the worthy law of love: And all other laws have presupposed a taint: Love is the law from kindled saint to saint, From lamb to lamb, from dove to answering dove, Love is the motive of all things that move. Harmonious by free will without constraint: Love learns and teaches: love shall man acquaint With all he lacks, which all his lack is love. Because Love is the fountain, I discern The stream as love: for what but love should flow From fountain Love? not bitter from the sweet! I ignorant, have I laid claim to know? Oh teach me, Love, such knowledge as is meet For one to know who is fain to love and learn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE REWARD by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ON VIOLET'S WAFERS, SENT ME WHEN I WAS ILL by SIDNEY LANIER BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK by AMY LOWELL DOMESDAY BOOK: GOTTLIEB GERALD by EDGAR LEE MASTERS A LETTER TO A POLICEMAN IN KANSAS CITY by KENNETH PATCHEN |