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NOR CARE TOO MUCH, by MARY E. BUFFINTON First Line: To care enough yet not to care too much Last Line: This the ideal. So sever love from hate. | ||||||||
To care enough yet not to care too much, How sensitive the scale of human love. In passionate embrace or gentle touch, What clumsiness can we be guilty of. Parental love is never quite content To let the child live his own life, be free. And often friendship, seeming innocent, Tips down the scale in mock humility; Or lover letting selfish love hold sway, Takes cool possession of both mind and heart Until the scales tip up the other way, And love is killed for want of better art. To keep the balance, weight for perfect weight, This the ideal. So sever love from hate. | Other Poems of Interest...STALKING LEMURS by KAREN SWENSON THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE [1611] by MICHAEL DRAYTON THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE IDEAL by KATHARINE LEE BATES MEDITATION by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |
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