Love

Don Juan's Song

by Isaac Rosenberg 1890–1918

From Poems (1922)

LoveMythology & Folklore

The moon is in an ecstasy,
It wanes not nor can grow;
The heavens are in a mist of love,
And deepest knowledge know:
What things in nature seem to move
Bear love as I bear love?
And bear my pleasures so?

I bear my love as streams that bear
The sky still flow or shake:
Though deep within, too far on high.
Light blossoms kiss and wake
The waters sooner than the sky;
And if they kiss and die
God made them frail to break.

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Don Juan sings that the moon and the heavens are 'in an ecstasy' of love. The last lines say lovers who kiss and die are only as God made them, 'frail to break'.

MLA

Rosenberg, Isaac. “Don Juan's Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rosenberg/28/.

Chicago

Rosenberg, Isaac. “Don Juan's Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rosenberg/28/.

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