Walter de La Mare Quotes

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Walter de La Mare

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• Light
• Sorrow
• Burden
• Evening
• Foam
• Forlorn

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• For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Music
  • Light
  • Sorrow