Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEEPER FRIENDSHIP, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were all eyes changed, were even poetry cold Last Line: And well content that nature should bury me. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | ||||||||
WERE all eyes changed, were even poetry cold, Were those long systems of hope that I tried to deploy Skeletons, still I should keep one final hold, Since clearer and clearer returns my first-found joy. I would go, once more, through the sunless autumn in trouble; Thin and cold rain dripping down through branches black, Streams hoarse-hurrying and pools spreading over the stubble, And the waggoner leaving the hovel under his sack Would guide me along by the gate and deserted siding, The inn with the tattered arbour, the choking weir; And yet, security there would need small guiding. I know one hearth, one love that shine beyond fear. There, though the sharpest storm and flood were abroad, And the last husk and leaf were stripped from the tree, I would sue for peace where the rats and mice have gnawed, And well content that Nature should bury me. | 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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