English Poetry. George Gordon Byron. Queries to Casuists. Джордж Гордон Байрон.

George Gordon Byron (Джордж Гордон Байрон)

Queries to Casuists

The Moralists tell us that Loving is Sinning,
⁠   And always are prating about and about it,
But as Love of Existence itself's the beginning,
   ⁠Say, what would Existence itself be without it?


They argue the point with much furious Invective,
⁠   Though perhaps 'twere no difficult task to confute it;
But if Venus and Hymen should once prove defective,
⁠   Pray who would there be to defend or dispute it?

                                          Byron.

George Gordon Byron’s other poems:

1. On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School
2. To the Earl of Clare
3. Lines Addressed to a Young Lady
4. To Anne (Oh say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreed)
5. Stanzas to Jessy

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