Platonick Love

INDEED I must confess,

When souls mix ‘t is an happiness;

But not complete till bodies too do combine,

And closely as our minds together join:

But half of heaven the souls in glory taste,

Till by love in heaven, at last,

Their bodies too are plac’d.

In thy immortal part

Man, as well as I, thou art;

But something’t is that differs thee and me;

And we must one even in that difference be.

I thee, both as a man and woman, prize;

For a perfect love implies

Love in all capacities.

Can that for true love pass,

When a fair woman courts her glass?

Something unlike must in love’s likeness be;

His wonder is, one, and variety:

For he, whose soul nought but a soul can move,

Does a new Narcissus prove,

And his own image love.

That souls do beauty know,

‘T is to the bodies’ help they owe;

If, when they know ‘t, they straight abuse that trust,

And shut the body from’t, ‘t is as unjust

As if I brought my dearest friend to see

My mistress, and at th’ instant he

Should steal her quite from me.

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• Come up from the Fields, Father. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• City of Ships. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• City of Orgies. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• City Dead-House, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Chanting the Square Deific. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Centenarian’s Story, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Cavalry Crossing a Ford. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Carol of Words. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Carol of Occupations. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Camps of Green. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• By Broad Potomac’s Shore. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Brother of All, with Generous Hand. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Bivouac on a Mountain Side. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Behold this Swarthy Face. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Behavior. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Beginning my Studies. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Beginners. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Beautiful Women. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
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