"Ring Out Your Bells" is a work that personifies Love and imagines that Love has died. At first, the speaker blames womankind in general and his mistress in particular for killing Love, and he asks God to deliver men from further suffering at the hands of women. However, as the poem progresses, the speaker admits that Love is not dead, but asleep, and he also begins to praise his mistress again, admitting that his own rage led him to lie about love. Finally, he asks God to deliver men not from womankind, but from the ravages of Love itself.
