Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VALE, AMOR!, by WILLIAM SHARP


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First Line: We do not know this thing
Last Line: And no foot stirs the dead leaves of that silent wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sensibility; Surprise; Suffering; Misery


We do not know this thing
By the spoken word:
It is as though in a dim wood
One heard a bird
Suddenly sing:
Then, in the twinkling of an eye
A shadow glooms the earth and sky,
And we stand silent, startled, in a changed mood.

It is but a little thing
The leaping sword,
When in the startled silence of changed mood
It comes as when a bird
Doth suddenly sing.
But thrust of sword or agony of soul
Are alike swift and terrible and strong,
And no foot stirs the dead leaves of that silent wood.





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