Summer of Love

Chapter 17: WHEREVER, WHENEVER

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A compact collection of lyrical poems that celebrates romantic devotion, natural imagery, and spiritual yearning, blending playful fairyland pieces, meditative prayers, and occasional urban portraits. The poet favors traditional verse forms such as villanelles and ballades and mixes classical and religious allusion with sensuous descriptions of gardens, moonlight, and birds. Short narrative ballads and elegiac tributes alternate with intimate love lyrics, producing a varied but unified mood of ardor, reverence, and pastoral charm.

WHEREVER, WHENEVER

If I had lived down underneath the earth,

And you had dwelt among the pleasant stars,

I should have flown the caverns of my birth,

And you have riven Heaven’s silver bars.

We owe no gratitude to wanton chance,

For not through him does heart cleave fast to heart.

Not time nor place nor any circumstance,

Could keep our lips, our breasts, our souls, apart.