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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONG OF ENCHANTMENT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A song of enchantment I sang me there
Last Line: On the wood and the pool and the elder tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: A song of enchantment I sang me there
Last Line: On the wood and the pool and the elder tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
A Song of Enchantment I sang me there,
In a green -- green wood, by waters fair,
Just as the words came up to me
I sang it under the wild wood tree.
Widdershins turned I, singing it low,
Watching the wild birds come and go;
No cloud in the deep dark blue to be seen
Under the thick-thatched branches green.
Twilight came; silence came;
The planet of evening's silver flame;
By darkening paths I wandered through
Thickets trembling with drops of dew.
But the music is lost and the words are gone
Of the song I sang as I sat alone,
Ages and ages have fallen on me --
On the wood and the pool and the elder tree.
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