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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECONCILIATION, by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON First Line: If thou wert lying cold and still and white Last Line: "let there be peace between us ere we die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Caro | |||
IF thou wert lying cold and still and white In death's embraces, O mine enemy! I think that if I came and looked on thee, I should forgive; that something in the sight Of thy still face would conquer me, by right Of death's sad impotence, and I should see How pitiful a thing it is to be At feud with aught that's mortal. So tonight, My soul, unfurling her white flag of peace, Forestalling that dread hour when we may meet, -- The dead face and the living, -- fain would cry, Across the years, "Oh, let our warfare cease! Life is so short, and hatred is not sweet; Let there be peace between us ere we die!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN OPEN SECRET by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON WHEN I AM OLD by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON THANATOPSIS by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT NATIONALITY by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS THE BROKEN HEART by JOHN DONNE FONTENOY, 1745: 2. AFTER THE BATTLE, EARLY DAWN, CLARE COAST by EMILY LAWLESS THE VIRGIN'S SLUMBER SONG by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL THE FLIGHT OF LOVE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY DAFFODILS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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