But these maneuverings to avoid
The touching of hands,
These shifts to keep the eyes employed
On objects more or less neutral
(As honor, for time being, commands)
Will hardly prevent their downfall.

Stronger medicines are needed.
Already they find
None of their strategems have succeeded,
Nor would have, no,
Not had their eyes been stricken blind,
Hands cut off at the elbow.

Poet: Donald Justice
Poem: Love's Strategems

Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Love's Strategems, has received 19 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own.