A RUDDY drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. I fancied he was fled, -- And, after many a year, Glowed uxexhausted kindliness, Like daily sunrise there. My careful heart was free again; O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth; The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WISE WOMAN by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE COMING OF SPRING by NORA PERRY ADAM'S CURSE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS DON'T YOU SEE? by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE BANJO FIEND by WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER SALUTE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |