The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell
Love poems by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell
My 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 [...]
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