John Clare: Shadow

John Clare was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on shadow.

John Clare: 42 quotes0 likes

“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.”

"Hope"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

“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”

I am
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

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

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