Love
Felicity
From The Angel in the House
Love
To marry her and take her home!
The poet, painting pureness, tells
Of lilies; figures power by Rome;
And each thing shows by something else.
But through the songs of poets look,
And who so lucky to have found
In universal nature’s book
A likeness for a life so crown’d!
Here they speak best who best express
Their inability to speak,
And none are strong, but who confess
With happy skill that they are weak.
Cite this poem
MLA
Patmore, Coventry. “Felicity.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/patmore/177/.
Chicago
Patmore, Coventry. “Felicity.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/patmore/177/.
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