Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A HOUSE IN FESTUBERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blind eyes meeting the mist and moon Last Line: -- could summer betray you? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | ||||||||
WITH blind eyes meeting the mist and moon And yet with blossoming trees robed round, With gashes black, nay, one great wound, Amazing still it stands its ground; Sad soul, here stay you. It held, one time, such happy hours, Its tables shone with smiles and filled The hungry -- Home! 'twas theirs, is ours, We house it here and laugh unkilled. Hoarse gun, now, pray you -- It knew the hand and voice of Sleep, Sleep was its friend and nightly came, And still the bony laths would keep One friendship, but poor Sleep's gone lame. O poisoner, Mahu! A hermit might have built a cell Among those evergreens, beside That mellow wall: they serve as well For four lean guns. Soft, hermits, hide, Lest pride display you. It hived the bird's call, the bee's hum, The sunbeams crossing the garden's shade -- So fond of summer! still they come, But steel-born bees, birds, beams invade. -- Could summer betray you? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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