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AFTER PARTING by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: OH, I HAVE SOWN MY LOVE SO WIDE
Last Line: AND IN THE NIGHT A SHAFT OF FIRE.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
Oh, I have sown my love so wide
That he will find it everywhere;
It will awake him in the night,
It will enfold him in the air.

I set my shadow in his sight
And I have winged it with desire,
That it may be a cloud by day,
And in the night a shaft of fire.






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