Monday, January 13, 2003

Sonnet 14 - If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Nought Comments

Rating: 3.6

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If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Rose Marie Juan-austin 02 January 2022

A beautiful and powerful poem of love. Great closure lines.

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Geeta Radhakrishna Menon 10 November 2021

Love for Love's sake! Marvellous Sonnet by Elizabeth Browning!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 10 November 2021

When I gave this poem 5 Stars again, the automat said that I had given once 5 Stars

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Sylvia Frances Chan 10 November 2021

Rereading this poem full of passion by the greatest Victorian era Poetess makes me still adore her poems and her personality. One has to live especially for the one he/she loves, as mirrored in this most beautiful poem

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Brook Renwick 10 November 2021

This is so romantic and I wonder if it is from the 1800s?

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Emmanuel Joseph Olumakiss 10 November 2021

Beautiful poem with great message well conveyed love me for love sake.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 01 March 2021

But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity. Congratulations being chosen as The Classic Poem Of The Day! Reading one of EBB's poem is oft interesting, From such a passionate inside and a heart full of passion.5 Stars!

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Ravi Kopra 01 March 2021

mohabbat agar tum muj se karna chahtay ho/to karo mohabbat mohabbat k liyay hi/kisi aur baat k liyay nahin

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Mustafa Bellek 01 March 2021

Nice Poems

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John S 12 November 2020

Very intelligently written poem. Love her for naught but love’s sake. Love her not for superficial reasons like looks and the way she talks. For love can be unwrought by time. looks fade and people change so love her for loves sake and they can love for all eternity! How romantic. Rhyme: ABBAABBACDCDCD. Iambic pentameter sonnet I think.

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Adeeb Alfateh 23 July 2019

Be changed, or change for thee, —and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, — A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! great and great and great great write 10+++++++++++++

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DragonRecoil 22 October 2018

Tis a very beautiful display of affection yet many don't know why i cry even though thy am shy

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Raghu RN 26 June 2018

All the things are difficult before easy

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Margaret Hamburger 08 February 2018

For John

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Chinedu Dike 14 January 2017

Beautiful portrayal of the essence of true love - a mighty spiritual experience that affects one profoundly.

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James Corro 25 May 2016

Love the person because you love him/her, not because of pity and attraction. Then, this gives the meaning of forever.

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Clarity of saying of love with beautiful expressions.

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Frances Janusz 30 April 2015

Love is not a choice, it's a compulsion. If you can explain your love by giving reasons for it then it is decision. Decisions are more easily changed than feelings. We control our decisions. Our feelings control us.

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 09 December 2014

Love only for love's sake that is all. The great poem from the great poetic mind.

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* Sunprincess * 09 December 2013

these first lines are beautifully written ~If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only.~

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