Wednesday, May 9, 2001

Love's Secret Comments

Rating: 3.4

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.
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William Blake
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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 September 2024

THREE: exploring the themes of the freedoms one experiences by not being in love: freedom from jealousy, freedom from admiration and affection, freedom from desire, and freedom from want.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 September 2024

TWO: A break away from Blake's regular themes of lost innocence and political/religious restraint on the human soul, "Love's Secret" offers the reader a refreshing look at a speaker

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 September 2024

ONE: Very Happy to read that this poem by William Blake was chosen by Poem Hunter and Team as The Classic Poem Of The Day 5 Stars! Thank you for sharing

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Bjpafa Meragente 28 October 2020

That last stanza completely transforms the prior, from illo, transforming it in a open ended...what that mystic travel did do? Lament her, reap her soul, or...what? The trick is we don't really have closure...

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Nafis Shadhin 04 July 2020

i really love to read this poem.

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Queeny Gona 13 January 2020

Love doesn't need a language to express! How true are the lines.

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Solomon Senxer 12 September 2019

I love this poem! Simple but profound!

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shinichole 15 April 2019

this poem is really sad! ! !

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Chaminda Pushpadewa 02 March 2019

love is communicating with out word of mouth such as sigh, cry, and other feeling a ice poem thanks

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Dr Antony Theodore 25 December 2018

William Blake and his poems of innocence are my favourit. thqnk u for this poem. tony

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Bhagabat Prasad Hotta 09 November 2018

So nice.....Love lies in our heart....10+++++++++++++++

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jerry sienfeld 20 April 2018

so.. so... so... nevermind dont care

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chuck norris 20 April 2018

i hate poems. this is for school

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For Real 06 January 2019

So why did you read it? Maybe you can't read... because you also hated school....

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Lungelo S Mbuyazi 25 November 2017

Oh wow! What poem! Like it.

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Sylvaonyema Uba 06 February 2017

I told her ll my heart. A lovely poem. Sylva.

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Mizzy ........ 31 August 2016

Much wisdom in these words.....Brilliant!

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Wilma De Guzman 23 August 2016

I like how he expresses his love!

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Ratnakar Mandlik 23 August 2016

The gentle wind moves silently, invisibly, Superb expression. Thanks for sharing it here.

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Ludolf Dauphin 30 July 2016

A true love poem and yet so sad...

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Oduro Bright Amoh 20 September 2014

Sad but true. Beautifully written

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