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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TWO HOUSES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: In the strange city of life
Last Line: Where dark doth dwell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: In the strange city of life
Last Line: Where dark doth dwell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
In the strange city of Life
Two houses I know well:
One wherein Silence a garden hath,
And one where Dark doth dwell.
Roof unto roof they stand,
Shadowing the dizzied street,
Where Vanity flaunts her gilded booths
In the noontide glare and heat.
Green-graped upon their walls
An ancient, hoary vine
Hath clustered their carven, lichenous stones
With tendril serpentine.
And ever and anon,
Dazed in that clamorous throng,
I thirst for the soundless fount that stills
Those orchards mute of song.
Knock, knock, nor knock in vain:
Heart all thy secrets tell
Where Silence a fast-sealed garden hath,
Where Dark doth dwell.
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