Besides Platonic love, besides the love
Of God, the love of sentiment, the
loving Of faithful pairs—(I needs must rhyme with dove,
That good old steam-boat which keeps verses moving
’Gainst reason—Reason ne’er was hand-and-glove
With rhyme, but always leant less to improving
The sound than sense)—besides all these pretences
To Love, there are those things which words name senses;