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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NOR CARE TOO MUCH, by MARY E. BUFFINTON First Line: To care enough yet not to care too much Last Line: This the ideal. So sever love from hate. | |||
To care enough yet not to care too much, How sensitive the scale of human love. In passionate embrace or gentle touch, What clumsiness can we be guilty of. Parental love is never quite content To let the child live his own life, be free. And often friendship, seeming innocent, Tips down the scale in mock humility; Or lover letting selfish love hold sway, Takes cool possession of both mind and heart Until the scales tip up the other way, And love is killed for want of better art. To keep the balance, weight for perfect weight, This the ideal. So sever love from hate. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PROLONGED SONNET: WHEN THE TROOPS WERE RETURNING FROM MILAN by NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS by GREGORY I CATHOLIC HYMN by EDGAR ALLAN POE HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 13. ENVOI, 1919 by EZRA POUND DIRGE FOR THE LATE JAMES CURRIE, M.D., OF LIVERPOOL by LUCY AIKEN ON THE DEATH OF CYNTHIA'S HORSE by PHILIP AYRES SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 31. A QUESTION by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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