by Poe · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A short complimentary love lyric counselling the beloved to remain exactly as she is to be endlessly praised and loved. Themes of love, beauty and constancy.
Connections
Motifs: Love Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Beauty Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
Thou wouldst be loved?—then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love—a simple duty.
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