Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (18611907)Shadow
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Though all the sons of joy laugh and adore thee,
Thou canst not throw thy shadow self away.
Where thou dost come, the earth is darker for thee.
Sees him no longer.
The hosts of darkness are, thou radiant one,
Through thee made stronger.