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EXMOOR VERSES: 3. DERELICTION by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH

Poet Analysis

First Line: O'ER THE TEARS THAT WE SHED, DEAR
Last Line: AND FORGET THE BROKEN VOWS!
Subject(s): LOVE - COMPLAINTS;

O'ER the tears that we shed, dear,
The bitter vines twist,
And the hawk and the red deer
They keep where we kiss'd:
All empty lies the shieling
That sheltered from rain,
With a star to pierce the ceiling,
And the wind a broken pane.

Thro' the mist, up the moorway,
Fade hunters and pack;
Down the ridge to the doorway
Homing voices float back...
O, between the threads of mist, love,
Reach your hands from the house:
Only mind that we kiss'd, love,
And forget the broken vows!



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