This poem was first published in Cor Cordium (1913), and was also included in Selected Poems (1925). blank To seek for grace where grace is not,    To look for love with loveless eye, To lighten passion's foulest blot,    To conquer hate with jealousy, All this blind, poisoned hearts will prove When senseless stones rise up and love. Impassioned souls are highly strung,    Thin reeds small winds will move apart, One drop of anger, darkly wrung,    Will leaven in a noble heart; Unworthy fires droop one by one, As stars are banished by the sun. Love, full of generous disdain    For wasting spites, and trifling jars, Will stoop and sweep into the plain    Provoked to equal-minded wars; Will shoot his arrows wide around, Give blow for blow and wound for wound. Title photography by Kara-Jane Senior Poems index Alphabetical list of poems online