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LINES TAKEN FROM POEMS
I SHALL NOT WRITE
Love, all our colours
Fade into shadows
— Shadows, but empty
Forms of the darkness?
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Pale with the spring-time,
Wandering without you —
Sick with love-sickness!
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To sigh upon this chill air of December,
To wonder why, and wondering why, remember !
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As through the air
Her little fan-shaped feet
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What beauty in the way the light fell on her eye-brows...
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These pages are as silent as drowned cries...
Come back, my Love, and with more fervent eyes
Than pity, Lips that bear the ivy-leaf
Once chose for emblem Love that never dies ?
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Bow thy head, O shadow on the wall,
And weep a shadow's grief.
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