Love I

George Herbert * Track #26 On The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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George Herbert

1633

Love I by George Herbert

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This sonnet from Herbert’s 1633 publication The Temple explores the tension the religious poet feels between two kinds of love and two kinds of beauty: immortal love is paired off with the mortal love condensed into a “skarf or glove,” and the “beautie which can never fade” with a beauty that works...

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Immortal love, authour of this great frame,
Sprung from that beautie which can never fade;
How hath man parcel’d out thy glorious name,
And thrown it on that dust which thou hast made,
While mortall love doth all the title gain!
Which siding with invention, they together
Bear all the sway, possessing heart and brain,
(Thy workmanship) and give thee share in neither.
Wit fancies beautie, beautie raiseth wit:
The world is theirs; they two play out the game,
Thou standing by: and though thy glorious name
Wrought our deliverance from th’ infernall pit,
Who sings thy praise? onely a skarf or glove
Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love.

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