Literagram#2: George Herbert’s Love
Posted on 12. Jan, 2012 by Dan in Blog, Literagrams
Here’s the second in our series of poems about love. Remember reading this poem in a Simone Weil anthology, for which it was an epigraph.
George Herbert’s Love
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack’d anything.
‘A guest,’ I answer’d, ‘worthy to be here:’
Love said, ‘You shall be he.”
I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear,
I cannot look on Thee.’
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
‘Who made the eyes but I?’
‘Truth, Lord; but I have marr’d them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.”
And know you not,’ says Love, ‘Who bore the blame?”
My dear, then I will serve.”
You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat.’
So I did sit and eat.
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