Alexander Pope on Love
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“Curse on all laws but those which love has made.”
“Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.”
“Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.”
“O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.”
“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”
“Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.”
“Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
“One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.”
“Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?”
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