Come again: sweet love doth now invite, Thy graces that refrain, To do me due delight, To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die, With thee again in sweetest sympathy.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Love invites again, urging the beloved to return for shared pleasures and even death, seeking sweet sympathy together.
- In plain terms
- Love calls for reunion and shared intimacy, even to the point of death.
- What can you take from it?
- Answer love’s call for closeness.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When does love become possessive?
- How to balance intimacy with individuality?
Another view
Romanticizes love as all‑consuming, which may be unhealthy.
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True love cannot be changed, Though delight from desert Be estranged. Farewell, farewell But yet or ere I part (O cruel), Kiss me sweet, kiss me sweet my jewel.
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