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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TREACHERY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She had amid her ringlets bound
Last Line: That vow -- the soul of it?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: She had amid her ringlets bound
Last Line: That vow -- the soul of it?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
She had amid her ringlets bound
Green leaves to rival their dark hue;
How could such locks with beauty bound
Dry up their dew,
Wither them through and through?
She had within her dark eyes lit
Sweet fires to burn all doubt away;
Yet did those fires, in darkness lit,
Burn but a day,
Not even till twilight stay.
She had within a dusk of words
A vow in simple splendour set;
How, in the memory of such words,
Could she forget
That vow -- the soul of it?
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