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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECONCILIATION, by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON First Line: If thou wert lying cold and still and white Last Line: "let there be peace between us ere we die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Caro | |||
IF thou wert lying cold and still and white In death's embraces, O mine enemy! I think that if I came and looked on thee, I should forgive; that something in the sight Of thy still face would conquer me, by right Of death's sad impotence, and I should see How pitiful a thing it is to be At feud with aught that's mortal. So tonight, My soul, unfurling her white flag of peace, Forestalling that dread hour when we may meet, -- The dead face and the living, -- fain would cry, Across the years, "Oh, let our warfare cease! Life is so short, and hatred is not sweet; Let there be peace between us ere we die!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN OPEN SECRET by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON WHEN I AM OLD by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON MY SENSES DO NOT DECEIVE ME by MARIANNE MOORE LWONESOMENESS by WILLIAM BARNES A PRAYER TO THE WIND by THOMAS CAREW EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DEAD STATESMAN by RUDYARD KIPLING ALFRED THE HARPER by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) THE RUINS OF CORINTH by ANTIPATER OF SIDON DAWN AT LEXINGTON by KATHARINE LEE BATES ON THE DEATH OF MR. JAMES VALENTINE by JAMES HAY BEATTIE |
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