| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Love | | By Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
| | Totus est Inermis Idem …
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. | 5 |
| 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. | 10 |
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| Implacable is Love— | |
| Foes may be bought or teased | |
| From their hostile intent, | |
| But he goes unappeased | |
| Who is on kindness bent. | 15 | | | |
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