Robert Southey on Valentine's Day
d. 1843 England
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Cupid "the little greatest god."
They sin who tell us love can die;
With life all other passions fly,
All others are but vanity.
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Love is indestructible,
Its holy flame forever burneth;
From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
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It soweth here with toil and care,
But the harvest-time of love is there.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
And when my own Mark Antony
Against young Cæsar strove,
And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
The cause was,—all for love.