Love II

George Herbert * Track #163 On The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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Love II by George Herbert

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This sonnet is essentially connected to the sonnet that immediately precedes it in Herbert’s volume, which even bears the same title: http://lit.genius.com/George-herbert-love-i-annotated .

In this second sonnet on divine love, the speaker speaks of two flames, the fire of human poetic invention, a...

Love II Annotated

Immortal Heat, O let thy greater flame
Attract the lesser to it: let those fires
Which shall consume the world, first make it tame,
And kindle in our hearts such true desires,
As may consume our lusts, and make thee way.
Then shall our hearts pant thee; then shall our brain
All her invention on thine Altar lay,
And there in hymnes send back thy fire again:
Our eies shall see thee, which before saw dust;
Dust blown by wit, till that they both were blinde:
Thou shalt recover all thy goods in kinde,
Who wert disseized by usurping lust:
All knees shall bow to thee; all wits shall rise,
And praise him who did make and mend our eies.

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