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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SANCTUARY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poet's Biography First Line: Shadowed by your dear hair, your dear kind eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Love | |||
SHADOWED by your dear hair, your dear kind eyes Look on wine-purple seas, whitened afar With marble foam, where the dim islands are. We sit forgetting. For the great pines rise Above dark cypress to the dim white skies So clear and black and still-to one great star. The marble dryads and the veined white jar Gleam from the grove. Glimmering, the white owl flies In the dark shade…. If ever life was harsh Here we forget-or ever friends turned foes. The sea cliffs beetle down above the marsh And through sea-holly the black panther goes. And in the shadows of this secret place Your kind, dear eyes shine in your dear, dear face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD |
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