Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough

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The verse in Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough includes a song declaring that love endures despite the sharp sword and the certainty of death. Hallbiorn holds the sword whose point is in Hallgerd's breast, where the poem says that Snæbiorn's lips of love had pressed. The verse contrasts the repeated return of summer with a question about summer's healing if winter has been vain.

A speaker describes living with a cruel crone and serving her in bower and hall, carrying things in the wood and doing whatever the crone wishes. A couple stand hand in hand until the woman's tears rise, and the man folds her to his breast to give her heart a while of rest. A weary voice addresses Pharamond while describing a waning life and asking what he lacks if love no longer suffices.

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William Morris

William Morris (1834-1896) was an English poet, designer, and socialist whose wallpapers and textiles helped define the Arts and Crafts movement. Late in life he turned to prose romances set in imagined lands, and those books are now regarded as foundations of modern fantasy literature.