Portrait of a Boy

Portrait of a Boy written by Walter de la Mare

Poems (1906)

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At evens with the copious April clouds;
With meek, wild face he stands; and in his eye
Deeps where the empyrean ever broods,
And in his mouth some femininity. —
Ah! for we know his secret, hath not life,
So strangely shpd his feet lest, suddenly,
He should remember him — the babbling strife
Of Venus* sparrows — lest he stoop and fly,
Chafing at earth, into that April sky?

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