Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NATURE DISPLAYED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her in my innocent contemplation Last Line: I hailed, and listening loved and loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Collins, William (1721-1759); Country Life; Green, Matthew (1696-1737); Nature; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
I LOVED her in my innocent contemplation, I felt before the need her consolation; Where green-enshrined the spring-well tinkled down I drank sweet music; the soft shadow brown Of hazelled purlieus by deer-pastures made My fancy's ambush. Down in the lawny glade (Hope more than guessed) white sylvandom was dancing, The wind-waved bough betrayed the wild sylph glancing. Then pleased I thought, this country, mother of grace, Was in her sons most fortunate. Every place Half-shadowed, half-disclosed such consonant cares, One would not haggle which were hers, which theirs: The church was brother to the chestnut-trees, The mossed bridge clasped his singing bride, gay Teise! From every wall some golden blossom sprang, Bells, tree-tops, rain and wind in one peal rang. Thrilled and translucent with this ripe concent I honoured her, but infant truth was pent In wordless shell, the image of a bird Waiting the sun-shaft and the magic word. And on a day it chanced I found, beside A window where the bee in the tea-rose plied, Old versemen; honour's wise unjealous Muse Woke me at last -- now not an hour to lose! These sang my song, fresh as the garden air That fluttered the dear pages, then and there; From Grongar Hill the thrush and flute awoke, And Green's mild sibyl chanted from her oak, Along the vale sang Collins' hamlet bell, And Chatterton's ribibles dinned in the dell; While changing Seasons hymned one changless Form, And the rainbow worshipped with the thunderstorm. O Nature, maker, mother! what deep joy Thus made a wild harp of a sauntering boy! O honour, how enthroned by Nature's men! I hailed, and listening loved and loved again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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