Love
The Miracle
From Works (Thompson, 1910)
Love
If thou be'st ice, I do admire
How thou couldst set my heart on fire ;
Or how thy fire could kindle me.
Thou being ice, and not melt thee ;
But even my flames, light as thy own.
Have hard'ned thee into a stone !
Wonder of love, that canst fulfil.
Inverting nature thus, thy will ;
Making ice one another burn.
Whilst itself doth harder turn !
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Suckling, John. “The Miracle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/74/.
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Suckling, John. “The Miracle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/74/.
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