Love's Paradox by Marie Van Vorst

Name: Love's Paradox
Author: Marie Van Vorst

The speaker declares an ever-increasing love that deepens with each day and night. Love accompanies the speaker in daily life, welcomes them home, offers a quiet inward music amid discord, and preserves a sense of intimate solitude even among changing crowds. The poem’s paradox is that the beloved is loved “most” in every contrasting condition: in absence and closeness, passionate rapture and still caresses, calm repose and quickened pulses. Love is presented as constant, limitless, and renewed at all times forever.

By Marie Van Vorst · First published 1901 · Genre: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Romantic Poetry · 146 words

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I love you more with every rising day / With every waning sun I love you more. / Love walketh with me on the outward way, / It stands to meet me at the open door. / It singeth low when other sounds clash loud; / It keeps me lonely 'mid a changing crowd.

I love you most when I am far away; / I love you most when on your heart I rest; / I love you most when rapture has its sway, / I love you in your still caresses best. / In restfulness, or when your pulses beat -- / All times, forever, most I love you, Sweet!

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Work type: Poem
Author: Marie Van Vorst
Date: 1901 CE
Language: English
Genres: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Sonnet, Devotional Poetry
Length: 146 words
Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)

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Love Poetry — The poem is wholly devoted to the speaker's deepening and constant love for an addressed beloved.
Lyric Poetry — It presents a concise, musical first-person expression of intimate feeling rather than narrative action or argument.
Romantic Poetry — Its central themes are devotion, emotional rapture, physical tenderness, longing during separation, and idealized companionship.
Sonnet — The work has fourteen lines and follows a compact, formally patterned structure characteristic of a sonnet, though its rhyme scheme is unconventional.