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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Hearken, o dear, now strikes the hour we die
Last Line: Of all things lovely the cold mortuary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Hearken, o dear, now strikes the hour we die
Last Line: Of all things lovely the cold mortuary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Hearken, O dear, now strikes the hour we die;
We, who in one strange kiss
Have proved a dream the world's realities,
Turned each from other's darkness with a sigh,
Need heed no more of life, waste no more breath
On any other journey, but of death.
And yet: Oh, know we well
How each of us must prove Love's infidel;
Still out of ecstasy turn trembling back
To earth's same empty track
Of leaden day by day, and hour by hour, and be
Of all things lovely the cold mortuary.
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