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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE QUARRY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: You hunted me with all the pack
Last Line: Hunts out his heart and eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: You hunted me with all the pack
Last Line: Hunts out his heart and eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
You hunted me with all the pack,
Too blind, too blind, to see
By no wild hope of force or greed
Could you make sure of me.
And like a phantom through the glades,
With tender breast aglow,
The goddess in me laughed to hear
Your horns a-roving go.
She laughed to think no mortal ever
By dint of mortal flesh
The very Cause that was the Hunt
One moment could enmesh:
That though with captive limbs I lay,
Stilled breath and vanquished eyes,
He that hunts Love with horse and hound
Hunts out his heart and eyes.
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