Love
The Prototype
From The Angel in the House
Love
Lo, there, whence love, life, light are pour’d,
Veil’d with impenetrable rays,
Amidst the presence of the Lord
Co-equal Wisdom laughs and plays.
Female and male God made the man;
His image is the whole, not half;
And in our love we dimly scan
The love which is between Himself.
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MLA
Patmore, Coventry. “The Prototype.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/patmore/143/.
Chicago
Patmore, Coventry. “The Prototype.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/patmore/143/.
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