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The Definition Of Love by abbeywasc(m): 11:35am On Mar 04, 2009
[b]THE DEFINITION OF LOVE

by: Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

Y love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.

Magnanimous Despair alone
Could show me so divine a thing
Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown,
But vainly flapp'd its tinsel wing.

And yet I quickly might arrive
Where my extended soul is fixt,
But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.

For Fate with jealous eye does see
Two perfect loves, nor lets them close;
Their union would her ruin be,
And her tyrannic pow'r depose.

And therefore her decrees of steel
Us as the distant poles have plac'd,
(Though love's whole world on us doth wheel)
Not by themselves to be embrac'd;

Unless the giddy heaven fall,
And earth some new convulsion tear;
And, us to join, the world should all
Be cramp'd into a planisphere.

As lines, so loves oblique may well
Themselves in every angle greet;
But ours so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.

Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars. [/b]
Re: The Definition Of Love by RuuDie(m): 4:38pm On Mar 10, 2009
This is not a poem. . . . . . but its str8 from the heart! grin wink

Well. . . . luv is just crazy
when you're in luv,
you just don't think of you as you,
its always in two,
you and her. . . .
all the way,
all day. . . .
to all the world, not a care
but just the pair,
you and her!

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