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What does it mean?
Love brings fearful and irrational thoughts, such as the sudden worry that your beloved might die.
In plain terms
Lovers often have scary thoughts like fearing their partner will die.
What can you take from it?
Love creates deep fears of loss.

Where it applies

  • being in love
  • worrying about family
  • facing uncertainty

Putting it to work

  • acknowledge fears
  • practice gratitude
  • accept uncertainty

Questions to consider

  • What fear do you face when you love someone?
  • How does love change your view of risk?

Another view

Not all love involves fear of death.

More from William Wordsworth

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  2. She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love:

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  3. O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

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