OUT of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day, I locked young love and threw the key away. Grief, wandering widely, found the key, And hastened with it, straightway, back to me, With Love beside him. He unlocked the door And bade Love enter with him there and stay. And so the twain abide for evermore. LOVE'S CHASTENING Once Love grew bold and arrogant of air, Proud of the youth that made him fresh and fair; So unto Grief he spake, "What right hast thou To part or parcel of this heart?" Grief's brow Was darkened with the storm of inward strife; Thrice smote he Love as only he might dare, And Love, pride purged, was chastened all his life. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PURSUIT OF THE WORD by ROBERT FROST THE MAD GARDENER'S SONG by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON EROS (1) by RALPH WALDO EMERSON PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 5 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE WIND AND THE MOON by GEORGE MACDONALD BINGEN ON THE RHINE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON |