O beloved, and stranger to me than my foe, And nearer to me than my breath, and my peace and my strife, What is it that binds us straitly together? Life; Body to body: soul to soul, do I know? I know that your hands speak to my hands, and my hands Speak to your hands with an irresistible desire; We are blown together as fire is blown into fire, We return as the wandering tide returns to the sands. Is it love, is it longing? I know not, care not, alas! Something cries, and a cry answers a cry. If I speak, you hear in your heart; when you call, it is I: Soul of my life, let us live! for the hours pass. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND: 2 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CARL HAMBLIN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 93. AL-NOOR by EDWIN ARNOLD WATER WOMAN by JOSEPH AUSLANDER PSALM 26. JUDICA ME DEUS by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |