Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.
The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.
There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.
. . . I am At war 'twixt will and will not.
My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.
A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.
Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.
Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.
I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.
