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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT ALL THE GOOD WE LOVE, by JOHN DAVIES (1565-1618) Poet Analysis First Line: Although we do not all the good we love, Last Line: Is love that burns, but burns like painted fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Welsh Poet; Davies Of Hereford, John | |||
Although we do not all the good we love, But still, in love, desire to do the same; Nor leave the sins we hate, but hating move Our soul and body's powers their powers to tame; The good we do God takes as done aright, That we desire to do he takes as done; The sin we shun he will with grace requite, And not impute the sin we seek to shun. But good desires produce no worser deeds, For God doth both together lightly give, Because he knows a righteous man must needs By faith, that works by love, forever live. Then to do nought but only in desire Is love that burns, but burns like painted fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOME BLAZE THE PRECIOUS BEAUTIES OF THEIR LOVES by JOHN DAVIES (1565-1618) BUTTERED PIPPIN-PIES by JOHN DAVIES (1565-1618) ON GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOK, THE TEMPLE, SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN by RICHARD CRASHAW KILLED IN ACTION by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES LA BELLA BONA ROBA by RICHARD LOVELACE WHEN I READ THE BOOK by WALT WHITMAN HELEN'S FACE A BOOK by FRANK GELETT BURGESS EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH HAYING, VERMONT AND GINGER DRINK COORDINATED by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO A STRANGER by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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