\r\n The Definition of Love\r\n\r\nMy love is of a birth as rare\r\nAs 'tis for object strange and high:\r\nIt was begotten by Despair\r\nUpon Impossibility.\r\n\r\nMagnanimous Despair alone\r\nCould show me so divine a thing,\r\nWhere feeble Hope could ne'er have flown\r\nBut vainly flapped its tinsel wing.\r\n\r\nAnd yet I quickly might arrive\r\nWhere my extended soul is fixed,\r\nBut Fate does iron wedges drive,\r\nAnd always crowds itself betwixt.\r\n\r\nFor Fate with jealous eye does see\r\nTwo perfect loves; nor lets them close:\r\nTheir union would her ruin be,\r\nAnd her tyrannic pow'r depose.\r\n\r\nAnd therefore her decrees of steel\r\nUs and the distant poles have placed\r\n(Though Love's whole world on us doth wheel)\r\nNot by themselves to be embraced.\r\n\r\nUnless the giddy heaven fall,\r\nAnd earth some new convulsion tear;\r\nAnd, us to join, the world should all\r\nBe cramped into a planishpere.\r\n\r\nAs lines so loves oblique may well\r\nThemselves in every angle greet:\r\nBut ours so truly parallel,\r\nThough infinite can never meet.\r\n\r\nTherefore the love which us doth bind,\r\nBut Fate so enviously debars,\r\nIs the conjunction of the mind,\r\nAnd opposition of the stars.\r\n\r\n\r\n by Andrew Marvell\r\n<\/pre><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Definition of Love 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 … Continue reading