Angelic love that stoops with heavenly lips <br />To meet its earthly mate; <br />Heroic love that to its sphere's eclipse <br />Can dare to join its fate <br />With one beloved devoted human heart, <br />And share with it the passion and the smart, <br />The undying bliss <br />Of its most fleeting kiss; <br />The fading grace <br />Of its most sweet embrace:- <br />Angelic love, heroic love! <br />Whose birth can only be above, <br />Whose wandering must be on earth, <br />Whose haven where it first had birth! <br />Love that can part with all but its own worth, <br />And joy in every sacrifice <br />That beautifies its Paradise! <br />And gently, like a golden-fruited vine, <br />With earnest tenderness itself consign, <br />And creeping up deliriously entwine <br />Its dear delicious arms <br />Round the beloved being! <br />With fair unfolded charms, <br />All-trusting, and all-seeing, - <br />Grape-laden with full bunches of young wine! <br />While to the panting heart's dry yearning drouth <br />Buds the rich dewy mouth - <br />Tenderly uplifted, <br />Like two rose-leaves drifted <br />Down in a long warm sigh of the sweet South! <br />Such love, such love is thine, <br />Such heart is mine, <br />O thou of mortal visions most divine!<br /><br />George Meredith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/angelic-love-2/
