The Definition of Love' is written by -

• Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician.
• His notable works:
- To His Coy Mistress,
- The Definition of Love,
- The Rehearsal Transpros’d
- The Garden etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopedia of Britannica.

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The Definition of Love
BY ANDREW MARVEL
My love is of a birth as rare
As ’tis for object strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.
Magnanimous Despair alone
Could show me so divine a thing
Where feeble Hope could ne’er have flown,
But vainly flapp’d its tinsel wing