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Love is Enough
Love is enough: though the world be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder,
Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder,
And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter:
The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
Poems about love are usually corny. It’s really cool to come upon a love poem that can include ryhme scheme and be about love, and still not be corny. The ryhme scheme here is, abcb except for the first two lines and the last line. I have to wonder if maybe William felt this way about someone else? If he did he was one lucky guy. William uses a wide variety of punctuation in his poem like the semi colon, coma, period, hyphen. Every line is headed with a capitalized letter and they are all almost all the same length. William does not talk about the lover’s themselves until the last couple of lines. Everything else in this poem is negative besides the lovers love. It’s like it’s the only pure thing left in a dark dank world. This gives rise to the old cliché of good verses evil, love verses evil. Even in the face of these odds the lovers still stand together not a tremble to be seen, steady in their love and courage.
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