English Poetry. Ina Donna Coolbrith. The Birth of Love. Ина Донна Кулбрит.

Ina Donna Coolbrith (Ина Донна Кулбрит)

The Birth of Love

God made the world and found it ‘good’.
An Angel Him beside
Wept softly, and, to question, said
‘For what Thou hast denied.’

‘And that? ’ God asked him tenderly,
‘What is the lack thereof? ’
‘Its Soul’- the Angle made reply
And God created Love.

Ina Donna Coolbrith’s other poems:

1. The Day of Our Lord
2. In Ended Days, a Child, I Trod Thy Sands
3. The Captive of the White City
4. Love-Song
5. Unbound

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон) The Birth of Love (“Like a Star in the seas above”)

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