Walter De La Mare

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Walter De La Mare Chance Poems

  • 1.
    By chance my fingers, resting on my face,
    Stayed suddenly where in its orbit shone
    The lamp of all things beautiful; then on,
    Following more heedfully, did softly trace
    ...
  • 2.
    Grief hath pacified her face;
    Even hope might share so still a place;
    Yet, on the silence of her heart,
    Haply, if a strange footfall start,
    ...
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