“All that sternness amid charm,
All that sweetness amid strength?”

—  W.B. Yeats

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

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