Modern Love

John Keats

1795 to 1821

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And what is love? It is a doll dress'd up
Yawning and doting a whole summer long,
The Queen of Egypt melted, and I'll say
Fools! if some passions high have warm'd the world,
Till Miss's comb is made a pearl tiara,
That silly youth doth think to make itself
If Queens and Soldiers have play'd deep for hearts,
And common Wellingtons turn Romeo boots;
Should be more common than the growth of weeds.
Divine by loving, and so goes on
A thing of soft misnomers, so divine
And Antony resides in Brunswick Square.
For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle;
Then Cleopatra lives at number seven,
It is no reason why such agonies
That ye may love in spite of beaver hats.
Fools! make me whole again that weighty pearl