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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEY TOLD ME, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: They told me pan was dead, but I
Last Line: Tears of an antique bitterness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Variant Title(s): Tears
First Line: They told me pan was dead, but I
Last Line: Tears of an antique bitterness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Variant Title(s): Tears
They told me Pan was dead, but I
Oft marvelled who it was that sang
Down the green valleys languidly
Where the grey elder-thickets hang.
Sometimes I thought it was a bird
My soul had charged with sorcery;
Sometimes it seemed my own heart heard
Inland the sorrow of the sea.
But even where the primrose sets
The seal of her pale loveliness,
I found amid the violets
Tears of an antique bitterness.
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