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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALONE (3), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: No sound over the deep, only the desolate foam
Last Line: Cry low, sad, keen, in so deep a peace, your dear name, once, in the height.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: No sound over the deep, only the desolate foam
Last Line: Cry low, sad, keen, in so deep a peace, your dear name, once, in the height.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
No sound over the deep, only the desolate foam,
White in the evening mist, of the last wave home:
No sound over the fields, only the lonely cry
Of the last bird speeding to rest and nest 'neath the darkening sky.
I walk and I think of you here -- your courage, your truth; I know,
Though the lips and the heart be silenced, and the eyes into darkness go,
These still may live within me, if I keep my truth, and am brave;
Nor mourn too sadly, wildly for one who mourns no more in the grave.
Yet, yet, even you will forgive, if a grief, as still as the sea
With all its waters a flood at peace, call on hope's shores for thee;
You will forgive, if a late bird weary, 'neath a sorrow as dark as the night,
Cry low, sad, keen, in so deep a peace, your dear name, once, in the height.
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