With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! Love Quotes

Love sure does hurt. Cupid shooting arrows that are "sharp"? Since when has being shot by something sharp that's going fifty miles an hour ever felt good? Okay, sometimes love feels good, but in this poem it hurts a lot.

Love is a case. This makes us think of it as a mystery ("the detective is on the case"), or as something that is potentially harmful, like when we say "you have a case of the Mondays," or you have "a case of the chicken pox." The point is the speaker doesn't say "lover's joy" or anything like that.

Here we see that love has the power to change the way we look and move. The moon's "languisht grace" (his "sad steps," perhaps) and his "looks" (a "wan" face) make that pretty clear.