O say not pure affections change When fixed they once have been, Or that between two noble hearts Hate e'er can intervene! Though coldness for a while may freeze The love-springs of the soul, Though angry pride its sympathies May for a time control, Yet such estrangement cannot last ''" A tone, a touch, a look, Dissolves at once the icyness That crisp'd affection's brook: Again they feel the genial glow Within the bosom burn, And all their pent-up tenderness With tenfold force return! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOHANNA PEDERSEN by KAREN SWENSON SISTER LOU by STERLING ALLEN BROWN THE SUBALTERNS by THOMAS HARDY THE BELLS OF YOUTH by WILLIAM SHARP ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 11. ON LOVE - TO A FRIEND by MARK AKENSIDE THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHERD; OR COMPLAINT OF DAPHNIS by RICHARD BARNFIELD PSALM 122 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |