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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SNOWFLAKE (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: See, now, this filigree: 'tis snow
Last Line: And earth shut in his grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Snow
First Line: See, now, this filigree: 'tis snow
Last Line: And earth shut in his grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Snow
See, now, this filigree: 'tis snow,
Shaped, in the void, of heavenly dew;
On winds of space like flower to blow
In a wilderness of blue.
Black are those pines. The utter cold
Hath frozen to silence the birds' green woods.
Rime hath ensteeled the wormless mould,
A vacant quiet broods.
Lo, this entranced thing! -- a breath
Of life that bids Man's heart to crave
Still for perfection: ere fall death,
And earth shut in his grave.
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