Love
When Love meets Love
From Lyrical
Love
When love meets love, breast urged to breast,
God interposes,
An unacknowledged guest,
And leaves a little child among our roses.
O, gentle hap!
O, sacred lap!
O, brooding dove!
But when he grows
Himself to be a rose,
God takes him — where is then our love?
O, where is all our love?
Cite this poem
MLA
Brown, Thomas Edward. “When Love meets Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brown_te/87/.
Chicago
Brown, Thomas Edward. “When Love meets Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brown_te/87/.
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