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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TIRED CUPID, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The thin moonlight with trickling ray
Last Line: Shadow beclouds his childlike brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: The thin moonlight with trickling ray
Last Line: Shadow beclouds his childlike brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
The thin moonlight with trickling ray,
Thridding the boughs of silver may,
Trembles in beauty, pale and cool,
On folded flower, and mantled pool.
All in a haze the rushes lean --
And he -- he sits, with chin between
His two cold hands; his bare feet set
Deep in the grasses, green and wet.
About his head a hundred rings
Of gold loop down to meet his wings,
Whose feathers, arched their stillness through,
Gleam with slow-gathering drops of dew.
The mouse-bat peers; the stealthy vole
Creeps from the covert of its hole;
A shimmering moth its pinions furls,
Grey in the moonshine of his curls;
'Neath the faint stars the night-airs stray,
Scattering the fragrance of the may;
And with each stirring of the bough
Shadow beclouds his childlike brow.
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