“All that sternness amid charm,
All that sweetness amid strength?”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Peace http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1564/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) <br class="br">Context: Ah, that Time could touch a form<br>That could show what Homer's age<br>Bred to be a hero's wage.<br>'Were not all her life but a storm,<br>Would not painters pain a form<br>Of such noble lines,' I said,<br>'Such a delicate high head,<br>All that sternness amid charm,<br>All that sweetness amid strength?<br>Ah, but peace that comes at length,<br>Came when Time had touched her form.