HAVE you not noted, in some family Where two were born of a first marriage-bed, How still they own their gracious bond, though fed And nursed on the forgotten breast and knee?-- How to their father's children they shall be In act and thought of one goodwill; but each Shall for the other have, in silence speech, And in a word complete community? Even so, when first I saw you, seemed it, love, That among souls allied to mine was yet One nearer kindred than life hinted of. O born with me somewhere that men forget, And though in years of sight and sound unmet, Known for my soul's birth-partner well enough! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COLUMBIAN ODE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR HARRIET BEECHER STOWE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE HIGH TIDE AT [OR, ON THE COAST OF] LINCOLNSHIRE by JEAN INGELOW DANNY DEEVER by RUDYARD KIPLING SONNET: 12 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO THEOPHILE GAUTIER by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE ON A MINIATURE by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 34 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING PERSIAN [ORIENTAL] ECLOGUES: 2. HASSAN; OR, THE CAMEL-DRIVER by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) |