Do you think, my boy, when I put my arms around you To still your fears That it is I who conquer the dark and the lonely night? My arms seem to wrap love about you, As your little heart fluttering at my breast Throbs love through me -- But, dear one, it is not your father: Other arms are about you, drawing you near, And drawing the earth near, and the night near, And your father near. Some day you shall lie alone at nights, As now your father lies; And in those arms, as a leaf fallen on a tranquil stream, Drift into dreams and healing sleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ. by JOHN KEATS THE LUTE OBEYS by THOMAS WYATT BEING RETIRED, COMPLAINS AGAINST THE COURT by PHILIP AYRES PASSAGES FROM A POEM: THE NEW WORLD by WITTER BYNNER SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 108 by BLISS CARMAN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OF THE LOVE THAT YOU POURED FORTH by EDWARD CARPENTER |