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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHADOW (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the beauty of the rose doth cast
Last Line: The beauty of heaven's shadowless asphodel?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Even the beauty of the rose doth cast
Last Line: The beauty of heaven's shadowless asphodel?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Even the beauty of the rose doth cast,
When its bright, fervid noon is past,
A still and lengthening shadow in the dust
Till darkness come
And take its strange dream home.
The transient bubbles of the water paint
'Neath their frail arch a shadow faint;
The golden nimbus of the windowed saint,
Till shine the stars,
Casts pale and trembling bars.
The loveliest thing earth hath, a shadow hath,
A dark and livelong hint of death,
Haunting it ever till its last faint breath. . .
Who, then, may tell
The beauty of heaven's shadowless asphodel?
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