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



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First Line: Darker than night; and, oh, much darker, she
Last Line: To gloomy hades and the whispering shore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


Darker than night; and, oh, much darker, she
Whose eyes in deep night darkness gaze on me.
No stars surround her; yet the moon seems hid
Afar somewhere, beneath that narrow lid.
She darkens against the darkness; and her face
Only by adding thought to thought I trace,
Limmed shadowily: O dream, return once more
To gloomy Hades and the whispering shore!





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