Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: Once when my life was young
Last Line: Now that I'm old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


Once when my life was young,
I, too, with Spring's bright face
By mine, walked softly along,
Pace to his pace.

Then burned his crimson may,
Like a clear flame outspread,
Arching our happy way:
Then would he shed

Strangely from his wild face
Wonderful light on me --
Like hounds that keen in chase
Their quarry see.

Oh, sorrow now to know
What shafts, what keenness cold
His are to pierce me through,
Now that I'm old.





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