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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECOLLECTION, by AMELIA WALSTIEN JOLLS CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: A silver birch-tree like a sacred maid Last Line: "shall whisper, ""hark! Who sang that love-song? Hark!" Subject(s): Pan (mythology) | |||
A SILVER birch-tree like a sacred maid Set with a guard of stalwart hemlocks round, Whose low-toned airs stole by with sighing sound, Stirred, shivering slightly, as if half afraid Where the black shadow crept along the ground. Breathless she stood, -- as one whose work is stayed, But threads her shuttle while her thought has strayed To times when wild fauns haunted all the rills, And piped among the deep noon-checkered hills Till all the land with song was overlaid. O Pan, dear Pan! come forth from out the dark Of those dream days; outsing our thrush and lark Till laughter-loving youths from windowsills Shall whisper, "Hark! who sang that love-song? Hark!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE DEAD PAN by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS HYMN OF PAN by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY PAN'S PIPING by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE IDYLL 3. THE TEACHER TAUGHT by BION THE DAIRYMAIDS TO PAN by GORDON BOTTOMLEY PAN IN PANDEMONIUM by BERTON BRALEY PAN AND LUNA by ROBERT BROWNING OLD FLEMISH LACE by AMELIA WALSTIEN JOLLS CARPENTER |
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