The Haunted Shadow

Topics: classic

Fair Trees, O keep from chattering so When I with my more fair do go Beneath your branches; For if I laugh with her your sigh Her rare and sudden mirth puts by, Or your too noisy glee will take Persuasion from my lips and make Her deaf as winter. O be not as the pines--that keep The shadow-charmd light asleep-- Perverse and sombre! For when we in the pinewood walked And of young love and far age talked, Their solemn haunted shadow broke Her peace--ah, how the sharp sob shook Her shadowed bosom!

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"Fair Trees, O keep from chattering so..."

John Frederick Freeman's contribution to classic is further solidified by the brilliance found in "The Haunted Shadow"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

#classic

Related lines

"Away, away-- Through that strange void and vast Brimmed with dying day; Away, So that I feel Only the wind Of the wo"

John Frederick Freeman

"The moon gave no light. The clouds rode slowly over, broad and white, From the soft south west. The wind, that cannot rest, So"

John Frederick Freeman

"That you might happier be than all the rest, Than I who have been happy loving you, Of all the innocent even the happiest-- This I"

John Frederick Freeman

"It was the lovely moon--she lifted Slowly her white brow among Bronze cloud-waves that ebbed and drifted Faintly, faintlier afar."

John Frederick Freeman

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky, And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet, S"

John Clare

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Frank Sidgwick

"Away, away-- Through that strange void and vas..."

About this line

Classified Tags

Related lines

Join our literary Sanctuary