A BOYISH friendship! No, respond the chimes, The years of chimes fulfilled since we parted, Since 'au revoir' you said among the limes, And passed away in silence tender-hearted. I hold it cleared by time that not of heat, Or sudden passion my great Love was born: I hold that years the calumny defeat That it would fade as freshness off the morn. That it was fathered not by mean desire Of eye and ear, doth cruel distance prove. -- My life is cleft to steps that lift it higher, And with my growing manhood grows my Love. Then come and tread the fruits of disconnection To the sweet vintage of your own perfection. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE KING'S JEWEL by PHOEBE CARY WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM by JOHN CLARE THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE VALLEY OF REMORSE by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON LITTLEHOLME; FOR J.S. AND A.W.S. by GORDON BOTTOMLEY A CURSE FOR A NATION: THE CURSE by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |