Alone (de la Mare, 1918)

Alone written by Walter de la Mare

Motley and Other Poems (1918)

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 The abode of the nightingale is bare,
 Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air,
 The fox howls from his frozen lair:
 Alas, my loved one is gone,
 I am alone:
 It is winter.
 
 Once the pink cast a winy smell,
 The wild bee hung in the hyacinth bell,
 Light in effulgence of beauty fell:
 I am alone:
 It is winter.
 
 My candle a silent fire doth shed,
 Starry Orion hunts o'erhead;
 Come moth, come shadow, the world is dead:
 Alas, my loved one is gone,
 I am alone;
 It is winter.

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