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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME PASSES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: There was nought in the valley
Last Line: Once lovely as ivory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: There was nought in the valley
Last Line: Once lovely as ivory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
There was nought in the Valley
But a Tower of Ivory,
Its base enwreathed with red
Flowers that at evening
Caught the sun's crimson
As to Ocean low he sped.
Lucent and lovely
It stood in the morning
Under a trackless hill;
With snows eternal
Muffling its summit,
And silence ineffable.
Sighing of solitude
Winds from the cold heights
Haunted its yellowing stone;
At noon its shadow
Stretched athwart cedars
Whence every bird was flown.
Its stair was broken,
Its starlit walls were
Fretted; its flowers shone
Wide at the portal,
Full-blown and fading,
Their last faint fragrance gone.
And on high in its lantern
A shape of the living
Watched o'er a shoreless sea,
From a Tower rotting
With age and weakness,
Once lovely as ivory.
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