Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A MEMORY, by IRVILLE CHARLES LECOMPTE


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First Line: Shadows up the hillside creeping
Last Line: Fluttered to the floor.
Subject(s): Shadows


SHADOWS up the hillside creeping,
Gold in western sky,
Meadow-brook beneath us keeping
Dreamy lullaby.

Soft stars through the pine-trees gleaming --
Gems in dark robes caught --
Everything about us seeming
With hidden meaning fraught.

Sweet dark eyes, upon me turning,
Challenge if I dare,
Vie with amorous sunbeams burning
O'er her face and hair.

But a truce to idle musing --
That was long ago.
Was she gracious or refusing?
You may never know.

Winter's snows those fields are hiding
'Neath a robe of white,
For another she is biding
Tryst of love to-night.

I was only glancing over
A book beloved of yore,
When a sprig of mountain clover
Fluttered to the floor.





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