Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TRUCE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE First Line: I have no feuds with warring life. We are Last Line: Be lost forever to a world of men. Subject(s): Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People | ||||||||
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. | Other Poems of Interest...DOUBLE DUTCH by MADELINE DEFREES STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD by CAROLYN KIZER WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE by CAROLYN KIZER THE LEAK IN THE DIKE; A STORY OF HOLLAND by PHOEBE CARY THE NETHERLANDS by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND by ANDREW MARVELL THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A DREAM by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A GHOST STORY by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A LETTER TO CORDELIA by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |
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