The Shadow Of Death
THE SHADOW OF DEATH by ROBERT GRAVES
Here's an end to my art! I must die and I know it, With battle murder at my heart--- Sad death for a poet!
Oh my songs never sung, And my plays to darkness blown! I am still so young, so young, And life was my own.
Some bad fairy stole The baby I nursed: Was this my pretty little soul, This changeling accursed?
To fight and kill is wrong--- To stay at home wronger: Oh soul, little play and song, I may father no longer!
Here's an end to my art! I must die and I know it, With battle murder at my heart--- Sad death for a poet!
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| Author | Graves, Robert (1895-1985) |
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| Title | The Shadow Of Death |
| Item Date | (1995, 1997, 1999) |
| File type | Text |
| Content | Poem |
| Repository name | ProQuest |
| Repository URL | http://lion.chawyck.co.uk |
| Copyright | The Robert Graves Copyright Trust |
| First line | Here's an end to my art! |
| Publication source | Robert Graves Complete Poems: Volumes 1 - 3 |
| Publication editor | Graves, Beryl and Ward, Dunstan |
| Publishers | Carcanet |
| Publication place | Manchester |
| Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3446 |
