Sunlight dancing, and the Earth Is stalked of shadows. Night hangs, and the shadows Possess Earth. Yet at morning, where go the old shadows? And at evening where do the new ones tarry? Oh, ye hosts of shadows, Where thy land? Sunlight cometh, and man Stalketh the Earth, and at eve He lieth down amid the shadows, Fellowing with them. He waketh Unto new light, but wearieth For the shadows. Oh, shadows, where is thy land? You shadow, you were the shade Of a leaf, and the leaf is gone. Even so are you. Man hath gone, and his shadow Accompanied him. Where to? Man was; even so the leaf And the shadows; then they May not be finished. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS by THOMAS HARDY NATURE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE MILKMAID by JEFFREYS TAYLOR THE VACANT CAGE (1) by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH by WALT WHITMAN A LOVE SONNET by GEORGE WITHER |