No man can escape from a woman's love When once such a love has been given, No refuge as safe as a woman's heart For a life that's been cruelly driven, And the winds of hate and the storms of pride Are broken and scattered like spray When a man returns and a woman forgives The errors which marked yesterday. No man can escape from a woman's prayers No matter how far he may go, For God answers prayer and the methods He takes Are strange to us mortals below. When prayers mix with tears and sorrows with love, And souls that are burdened entreat, There's something that moves man's hardness of heart And urges repentance complete. No man can escape from the love he has felt For the children he brought into life, No matter how long he's estranged from their thought Through sin and its consequent strife; For there's something divine in man's love for his child, There's something that makes its appeal To his innermost soul and moves him to show The love which a father can feel. No man can escape from himself though he aims To forget or deny wicked deeds, He may outwardly show to the world a calm mien, But within his heart silently bleeds; No bandage save Love can staunch mem'ry's wounds, No friends can displace kinship's ties, The love of his own, their prayers and himself, No man can escape if he tries. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PORTRAIT OF A BOY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THOUGHTS OF A TINY PIG by DAVID IGNATOW THE BOOK OF STONES AND LILIES by AMY LOWELL SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PAULINE BARRETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |