Love -- where you Go! by Marie Van Vorst
“Love, where you go” celebrates love as a force that transforms winter into spring and fills the speaker with joy. Wherever Love goes, December warmth returns, birds sing among barren branches, flowers break through ice and snow, and the darkness of midnight yields to morning. In Love’s presence, the speaker’s heart becomes glad, every branch seems to hold a song, and the speaker takes up a lute to send music toward the blue heaven. Seeing Love as a source of paradise and ecstasy, the speaker imagines the stars mistaking Love’s eyes for stars below, and repeatedly declares that all renewal, melody, and happiness follow “where you go.”
By Marie Van Vorst · First published 1903 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Romantic Poetry · 233 words
First lines
Love, where you go December's air grows warm, / Birds bend the barren branches to their song / And flowers spring, your coming steps to charm. / Bursting the band of ice, and frosty thong. / Over the highways prisoned in by snow / They fling a garden in old winter's scorn! / Saying, "The lovely spring is here. we know! " / The sombre heart of midnight pales to morn / Love -- / where / you / go. --
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Marie Van Vorst
- Date: 1903 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Nature Poetry, Pastoral Poetry
- Length: 233 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — The work is a short, songlike poetic expression of personal emotion, using rhythmic lines, refrain, and musical imagery such as ballads, a lute, and melody.
- Love Poetry — Its central subject is the speaker's ecstatic devotion to Love, whose presence transforms both the speaker's heart and the natural world.
- Romantic Poetry — The poem treats love as a sublime, idealizing force and links intense inner feeling with a revitalized natural landscape.
- Nature Poetry — Spring imagery dominates the poem: warming air, singing birds, flowering branches, melting ice, snowbound highways, and morning light all represent renewal.
Tags
fiction · romance · love story · early twentieth century · American literature · society novel · courtship · relationships · marriage · social class · emotional drama · domestic life