SHADOWS! the only shadows that I know Are happy shadows of the light of you, The radiance immortal shining through Your sea-deep eyes up from the soul below; Your shadow, like a rose's, on the grass Where your feet pass. The shadow of the dimple in your chin, The shadow of the lashes of your eyes, As on your cheek, soft as a moth, it lies; And, as a church, I softly enter in The solemn twilight of your mighty hair, Down falling there. These are Love's shadows, Love knows none but these: Shadows that are the very soul of light, As morning and the morning blossom bright, Or jewelled shadows of moon-haunted seas; The darkest shadows in this world of ours Are made of flowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PILLAR OF THE CLOUD by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN THE BIRDS: THE BIRDS' LIFE by ARISTOPHANES BODY AND SOUL by AWHAD AD-DIN 'ALI IBN VAHID MUHAMMAD KHAVARANI SONG by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN SOUNDS OF THE CITY by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 4 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: SIXTH ECLOGUE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |