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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHADOW, by ALICE MONKS MEARS
First Line: Were there a science to dissect
Last Line: In song, the inaudible word.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love
First Line: Were there a science to dissect
Last Line: In song, the inaudible word.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love
Were there a science to dissect
the shadow, would my heart be free
of that which more than ghost or essence
practices mockery?
Beauty remarked in hand and leaf
deceives me. There is something lingers,
bodiless, secret, undefined. ...
uncaught by the brain's fingers.
Though sense may circumscribe the object,
escapes, intangible, unheard,
the shadow that the heart pursues:
in song, the inaudible word.
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