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Dowson, Ernest - The Garden of Shadow
Identifier
000348
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Ernest Dowson – The Garden of Shadow
Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind
Against the perfect flowers; thy garden’s close
Is grown a wilderness, where none shall find
One strayed, last petal of one last year’s rose
O bright, bright hair! O mouth like a ripe fruit!
Can famine be so nigh to harvesting?
Love, that was songful, with a broken lute
In grass of graveyards goeth murmuring
Let the wind blow against the perfect flowers,
And all the garden change and glow with spring;
Love is grown blind with no more count of hours,
Nor part in seed time nor in harvesting
The source of the experience
Dowson, ErnestConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
AlcoholismDrinking absinthe
Grief
Psychological trauma
Unrequited love