Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHADY HILLS, by JOHN FREEMAN


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First Line: Shady hills, long shady hills there be
Last Line: Fingers the valley with unshadowed light.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SHADY hills, long shady hills there be
Uprising, that with cool arms cover me.
Shady hills, I on their shoulder falling
As falls a leaf, am happier in falling.
There climbing, long, long have I dreaming stayed
Adding to that lone shade my lonely shade.
Sunny the Plain glitters in waves of light,
Shining with foam of orchard blossom white
And green and white. But here where shadows sleep
Secret between the limbs of hills and deep,
Shadow on cool shadow sinks, as on
Thy shadowy breast sinks mine, beloved one.
—Deepens the shadow, darken the distant folds;
Valley'd between those breasts already dark night holds—
O, darker for my shadow falling there
Through the long quietude of evening air
Between those breasts, while Venus rising bright
Fingers the valley with unshadowed light.





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