Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LORDS OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography First Line: Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees Last Line: And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Shadows; Vision; Dead, The; Elves | ||||||||
Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees I have heard the Hidden People like the hum of swarming bees: And when the moon has risen and the brown burn glisters grey I have seen the Green Host marching in laughing disarray. Dalua then must sure have blown a sudden magic air Or with the mystic dew have sealed my eyes from seeing fair: For the great Lords of Shadow who tread the deeps of night Are no frail puny folk who move in dread of mortal sight. For sure Dalua laughed alow, Dalua the fairy Fool, When with his wildfire eyes he saw me 'neath the rowan-shadowed pool: His touch can make the chords of life a bitter jangling tune, The false glows true, the true glows false, beneath his moontide rune. The laughter of the Hidden Host is terrible to hear, The Hounds of Death would harry me at lifting of a spear: Mayhap Dalua made for me the hum of swarming bees And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FAERY FOREST by SARA TEASDALE THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE FAIRIES by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE FAIRY CHILD by JOHN ANSTER THE FORSAKEN MERMAN by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE LITTLE ELF-MAN by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS TAM O' SHANTER by ROBERT BURNS A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19. THE FAIRY QUEEN PROSERPINA by THOMAS CAMPION A PROPER NEW BALLAD [ENTITLED THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL] by RICHARD CORBET |
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