Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NOW SILENT FALLS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE


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First Line: Now silent falls the clacking mill
Last Line: And no time, no, love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


Now silent falls the clacking mill;
Sweet -- sweeter smells the briar;
The dew wells big on bud and twig;
The glow-worm's wrapt in fire.

Then sing, lully, lullay, with me,
And softly, lill-lall-lo, love,
'Tis high time, and wild time,
And no time, no, love!

The Western sky has vailed her rose;
The night-wind to the willow
Sigheth, 'Now lovely, lean thy head,
Thy tresses be my pillow!'

Then sing, lully, lullay, with me,
And softly, lill-lall-lo, love,
'Tis high time, and wild time,
And no time, no, love!

Cries in the brake, bells in the sea:
The moon o'er moor and mountain
Cruddles her light from height to height,
Bedazzles pool and fountain.

Leap, fox; hoot, owl; wail, warbler sweet:
'Tis midnight now's a-brewing;
The fairy mob is all abroad,
And witches at their wooing. . .

Then sing, lully, lullay, with me,
And softly, lill-lall-lo, love,
'Tis high time, and wild time,
And no time, no, love.





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