William Baylebridge Light Poems

  • 1.
    This world is driven by two contending powers--
    Love, that coerceth Heaven to dwell with dust,
    And that dire pledge of Hell's self-perjured Lust--
    And as we list must Heaven and Hell be ours.
    ...
  • 2.
    Love feeds, like Intellect, his lamp with truth;
    In the clear truths he finds its flame is measured.
    And is not flesh, there, verity? In sooth!
    So Love not by this fantasy is pleasured
    ...
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