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Love is something poets love to dwell on. Blake's tone seem to mirror some of his contemporaries. For example, Spenser's "What is Love" has a somewhat bitter tone:
If queens and soldiers have play'd high for hearts,/
It is no reason why such agonies/Should be more common than the growth of weeds.
Charlotte Dacre has some fun asking the lover this:
You tell me that you truly love;/Ah! know you well/what love does mean?/Does neither whim nor fancy move/The rapture of your transient dream?
I'm glad that love survives rejection. One of the hardest tasks is to be an honest person in the area of love. There is risk involved in handing someone Your Heart.
dallas from United States