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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...SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS SONG FOR ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS by WALT WHITMAN A STIRRUP-CUP by DOUGLAS AINSLIE PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 41. YA HASIB by EDWIN ARNOLD EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 27. THE POWER OF ELOQUENCE IN LOVE by PHILIP AYRES ODE TO THE RIVER TEIGN by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE ON THE BIRTH OF A FRIEND'S ELDEST SON by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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