<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=34328" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love Has Seven Names</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love has seven names.<br>Do you know what they are?<br>Rope, Light, Fire, Coal<br>make up its domain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The others, also good,<br>more modest but alive:<br>Dew, Hell, the Living Water.<br>I name them here (for they<br>are in the Scriptures),<br>explaining every sign<br>for virtue and form.<br>I tell the truth in signs.<br>Love appears every day<br>for one who offers love.<br>That wisdom is enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love is a ROPE, for it ties<br>and holds us in its yoke.<br>It can do all, nothing snaps it.<br>You who love must know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The meaning of LIGHT<br>is known to those who<br>offer gifts of love,<br>approved or condemned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Scripture tell us<br>the symbol of COAL:<br>the one sublime gift<br>God gives the intimate soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under the name of FIRE, luck,<br>bad luck, joy or no joy,<br>consumes. We are seized<br>by the same heat from both.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When everything is burnt<br>in its own violence, the DEW,<br>coming like a breeze, pauses<br>and brings the good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LIVING WATER (its sixth name)<br>flows and ebbs<br>as my love grows<br>and disappears from sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HELL (I feel its torture)<br>damns, covering the world.<br>Nothing escapes. No one has grace<br>to see a way out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take care, you who wish<br>to deal with names<br>for love. Behind their sweetness<br>and wrath, nothing endures.<br>Nothing but wounds and kisses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though love appears far off,<br>you will move into its depth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hadewijch+of+Antwerp">Hadewijch of Antwerp</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=34328" data-title="Love Has Seven Names de Hadewijch of Antwerp" data-description="Love has seven names./Do you know what they are?/Rope, Light, Fire, Coal/make up its domain./The others, also good,/more modest but alive:/Dew, Hell, the Living Water./I name them here (for they/are in the Scriptures),/explaining every sign/for vi..."></div> </div> </div>

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