SOUL-SOOTHING drug! your virtues let me laud, Which can with sov'reign sway Force lawless passion into harmless play! Oft have I owned your pow'r In many a moody hour, When grief with viper-tooth my heart hath gnawed. Still friendly to the plaintive muse, You can a balm infuse. If, sick with hopeless love, Too tenderly I mourn, You can the shaft of anguish quick remove; Or make desire's destructive flame less fiercely burn: Guardian you are of Julia's innocence, When madd'ning rapture goads to vice my throbbing sense. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MINOR POET by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET PARAGRAPHS: 16 by HAYDEN CARRUTH TO THE MEMORY OF INEZ MILHOLLAND by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON LOHENGRIN; PROEM by EMMA LAZARUS BROTHERHOOD (2) by EDWIN MARKHAM TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM |