Love

Love

by Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862

From The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912)

Love

No show of bolts and bars
Can keep the foeman out,
Or 'scape his secret mine
Who enter'd with the doubt
That drew the line.
No warder at the gate
Can let the friendly in;
But, like the sun, o'er all
He will the castle win,
And shine along the wall.

Implacable is Love —
Foes may be bought or teased
From their hostile intent,
But he goes unappeased
Who is on kindness bent.

MLA

Thoreau, Henry David. “Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/thoreau/4/.

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Thoreau, Henry David. “Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/thoreau/4/.

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