February 2011
4 posts
A Description of Love
Sir Walter Ralegh
FROM R. S.’s Phoenix Nest, 1593 A Description of Love Now what is love? I pray thee, tell. It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell. It is perhaps the sauncing bell That tolls all into heaven or hell: And this is love, as I hear tell. Yet what is love? I pray thee say. It is a work on holy-day; It is December matched with May; When...
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To ————-, by James D. Corrothers,
Beyond the hilltops to the north and west.
Beyond the dells, and past the pleasant streams.
Beyond the lakes that murmur in their dreams
The liquid fancies of their silver rest---
In such sweet thoughts as haunt a poet's breast---
(For lakes are poets, Love) there dwells my theme's
Sweet idol, you, Beloved, O Love, it...
