Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALL THAT'S PAST, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE


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First Line: Very old are the woods
Last Line: Of amaranth lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Past


Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs,
When March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are --
Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.

Very old are the brooks;
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold beneath
The azure skies
Sing such a history
Of come and gone,
Their every drop is as wise
As Solomon.

Very old are we men;
Our dreams are tales
Told in dim Eden
By Eve's nightingales;
We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.





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