John Clare: Shadow

John Clare was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on shadow.
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“To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,
And empty shadow of what is to be;
Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,
And ends but only when our being ends.”

John Clare

"Hope"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

Hope , Future , Dependency , Cheating

“I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:
And yet I am, and live with shadows tost”

John Clare

I am
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

Love , Death , Memory

“The ivyed oaks dark shadow falls
Oft picking up with wondering gaze
Some little thing of other days
Saved from the wreck of time.”

John Clare

The Shepherd's Calendar: "July" (second version) http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/clare/july2.html
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

Time