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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALEXANDER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the great alexander
Last Line: Of the sea-maids clear?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: It was the great alexander
Last Line: Of the sea-maids clear?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
It was the Great Alexander,
Capped with a golden helm,
Sate in the ages, in his floating ship,
In a dead calm.
Voices of sea-maids singing
Wandered across the deep:
The sailors labouring on their oars
Rowed, as in sleep.
All the high pomp of Asia,
Charmed by that siren lay,
Out of their weary and dreaming minds,
Faded away.
Like a bold boy sate their Captain,
His glamour withered and gone,
In the souls of his brooding mariners,
While the song pined on.
Time, like a falling dew,
Life, like the scene of a dream,
Laid between slumber and slumber,
Only did seem. . . .
O Alexander, then,
In all us mortals too,
Wax thou not bold -- too bold
On the wave dark-blue!
Come the calm, infinite night,
Who then will hear
Aught save the singing
Of the sea-maids clear?
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