The Higher Love a Plea for a Nobler Conception of Human Love
The Higher Love a Plea for a Nobler Conception of Human Love
George Barlow
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The latter, surely, is the higher and nobler idea, and the poets of the nineteenth century were intensely convinced of this in their inmost hearts, though they did not reason the matter out. Hear how Tristram's passion of love for Iseult expresses itself, when he knows that this life is at an end, and that he and she are standing on the verge of the unseen : " O mine own, O mine and no man's yet save mine alone, Iseult! what ails thee that I lack so long All of thee, all things thine for which ...I long ? For more than watersprings to shadeless sands, * " Phaedrus, " 250. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF MATTER 3! More to me were the comfort of her hands Touched once, and more than rays that set and rise The glittering arrows of her glorious eyes, More to my soul than summer's to the south The mute clear music of her amorous mouth, And to my heart's heart more than heaven's great rest The fullness of the fragrance of her breast. " * That is not " Platonic. " It is far higher and purer than anything Platonic.
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