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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOST LOVELY SHADE; FOR ALICE BOUVERIE, by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Most lovely dark, my aethiopia born
Last Line: Shall pour such splendour as your heart to me.
Subject(s): Clouds
First Line: Most lovely dark, my aethiopia born
Last Line: Shall pour such splendour as your heart to me.
Subject(s): Clouds
Most lovely Dark, my Aethiopia born
Of the shade's richest splendour, leave not me
Where in the pomp and splendour of the shade
The dark air's leafy plumes no more a lulling music
made.
Dark is your fleece, and dark the airs that grew
Amid those weeping leaves.
Plantations of the East drop precious dew
That, ripened by the light, rich leaves perspire.
Such are the drops that from the dark airs' feathers
flew.
Most lovely Shade . . . Syrinx and Dryope
And that smooth nymph that changed into a tree
Are dead . . . the shade, that Aethiopia, sees
Their beauty make more bright its treasuries --
Their amber blood in porphyry veins still grows
Deep in the dark secret of the rose
And the smooth stem of many a weeping tree,
And in your beauty grows.
Come then, my pomp and splendour of the shade
Most lovely cloud that the hot sun made black
As dark-leaved airs, --
Come then, O precious cloud,
Lean to my heart: no shade of a rich tree
Shall pour such splendour as your heart to me.
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