THERE is a shadow on the sunny wall,
Dark and forbidding, like a bode of ill;
Go, drive it thence. Alas, such shadows fall
From real things, nor may be moved at will.
There is a shadow on my heart to-day,
A cloudy grief condensing to a tear:
Alas, I cannot drive its gloom away-
Some sin or sorrow casts the shapeless fear.
The Shadow
John Boyle O'reilly
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Poem topics: away, dark, fear, grief, heart, sorrow, sunny, real, wall, tear, Valentine's Day, shadow, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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