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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOURN'ST THOU NOW?, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago from radiant palace
Last Line: Of a god once thine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Long ago from radiant palace
Last Line: Of a god once thine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Long ago from radiant palace,
Dream-bemused, in flood of moon,
Stole the princess Seraphita
Into forest gloom.
Wail of hemlock; cold the dewdrops;
Danced the Dryads in the chace;
Heavy hung ambrosial fragrance;
Moonbeams blanched her ravished face.
Frail and clear the notes delusive;
Mocking phantoms in a rout
Thridded the night-cloistered thickets,
Wove their sorceries in and out. . . .
Mourn'st thou not? Or do thine eyelids
Frame a vision dark, divine,
O'er this imp of star and wild-flower --
Of a god once thine?
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