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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...THE DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE RIDDLE ON THE LETTER H (1) by CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE IN HARBOR by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER ON A FLY DRINKING FROM HIS CUP by WILLIAM OLDYS CLERICAL OPPRESSORS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER TO CHLOE; AN APOLOGY FOR GOING INTO THE COUNTRY by JOHN WOLCOTT |
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