I HAVE no feuds with warring life. We are As peaceful as two children fast asleep; The silence settles 'twixt us, broad and deep, Our truce was witnessed by the northern star; For years his barriers have been no bar To any quest of mine. My pulses leap From sense of happy freedom, yet I keep A stealthy watch upon him, near and far, For in one moment he may, tiger-like, Spring swiftly at my heart-chords ere I ken The mystery of his motives, and may strike So deep a wound I shall not rise again, But as the old Dutch town, when broke the dike, Be lost forever to a world of men. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RIDE-BY-NIGHTS by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HARRY WILMANS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ROCOCO by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ROGER'S SONG, FR. MIDSUMMER EVE by GORDON BOTTOMLEY AN EVENING CLOUD by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD THEODRIC; A DOMESTIC TALE by THOMAS CAMPBELL |