Love

Felicity

by Coventry Patmore 1823–1896

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.

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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