A BOYISH friendship! No, respond the chimes, The years of chimes fulfilled since we parted, Since 'au revoir' you said among the limes, And passed away in silence tender-hearted. I hold it cleared by time that not of heat, Or sudden passion my great Love was born: I hold that years the calumny defeat That it would fade as freshness off the morn. That it was fathered not by mean desire Of eye and ear, doth cruel distance prove. -- My life is cleft to steps that lift it higher, And with my growing manhood grows my Love. Then come and tread the fruits of disconnection To the sweet vintage of your own perfection. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE HOLY NATIVITY [OF OUR LORD GOD]; AS SUNG BY SHEPHERDS by RICHARD CRASHAW THE COMING AMERICAN by SAM WALTER FOSS TO A CATY-DID by PHILIP FRENEAU THE NEW INN: A VISION OF BEAUTY by BEN JONSON A DOUBTING HEART by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER HYMN OF PAN by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY OVERTURE TO A DANCE OF LOCOMOTIVES by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |