LIGHT, A SHORT LOVE POEM
The
night has a thousand eyes,
The
day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world
dies
With
the dying sun.
The
mind has a thousand eyes,
And
the heart but one;
Yet
the light of a whole life dies
When
its love is done.
This is one of the best love poems
written by the English poet Francis W, Bourdillon (1852-1921). The poet
compares the quality of one sun with that of
a thousand stars. When the sun sets, the light of the whole world
vanishes. Likewise, the mind has a thousand eyes but its impact is not so vast
as that of one eye of the heart without which the whole life of the lovers
comes to end. To put it briefly, love and life are interdependent. If there is
no love, there is no life worth the name.
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G.R.Kanwal
09 January 2024
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