Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRAGMENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steal abroad, your time is come; doubt not once the new-blown / hour Last Line: To make new morning wild with flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | ||||||||
STEAL abroad, your time is come; doubt not once the new-blown hour; Winter's wickedness is past, And those long leaden nerveless moods Which frowned much worse than frozen woods Gone, as soft as thistle-wool Upon a zephyr's love-like breath; In animation beautiful Returns your chance; now wander with The sparkle on the living seas, Nor fear that in these green estates Ambushed may lie The hooded serpent with the human eye; But all is opening garden-gates, Running mill-sails, fountain trees, Winged boats that water-jewels attend Where singingly they round the bend; And sounding works whose smoke lifts proud Through towers of force to yon rose-cloud From elemental engines poured -- And both a glory to the Lord. From mill to steeple, day breaks pure; Your horse is on the road he wished, And away past suburb and colure Goes like the famous giant refreshed; While you as light you travel by See beckoning hand or smiling eye That came in night's dark fairy showers To make new morning wild with flowers | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOREFATHERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN REPORT ON EXPERIENCE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SOLUTIONS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE GIANT PUFFBALL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 11TH R.S.R. by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 1916 SEEN FROM 1921 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A 'FIRST IMPRESSION': TOKYO by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A BRIDGE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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