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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 67. ...every wish...

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Love, thou hast every bliss in store,

’T is in friendship, and ’t is in something more;

Each other every wish they give –

Not to know love is not to live.

John Gay,[i]

1720s

 

 

 


[i] “Love, thou hast every bliss” John Gay, Book of Elegant Poetical Extracts, New York 1869, p. 872

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10 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

Four absolutely beautiful lines, and no less true a poem for its brevity. Thank you. 

Thank you, Parker. As a poem from the 18th century, there can be no doubt the "friendship" and "something more" means between people of the same sex, as men and women were not expected to be friends at this time.

I think the poem's a gem too!

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