Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR ALL THE GRIEF, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: For all the grief I have given with words
Last Line: In the dark of the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


For all the grief I have given with words
May now a few clear flowers blow,
In the dust, and the heat, and the silence of birds,
Where the friendless go.

For the thing unsaid that heart asked of me
Be a dark, cool water calling -- calling
To the footsore, benighted, solitary,
When the shadows are falling.

O, be beauty for all my blindness,
A moon in the air where the weary wend,
And dews burdened with loving-kindness
In the dark of the end.





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