Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EMPTY HOUSE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See this house, how dark it is Last Line: Beneath these thick-boughed trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Variant Title(s): The Dark House | ||||||||
See this house, how dark it is Beneath its vast-boughed trees! Not one trembling leaflet cries To that Watcher in the skies -- 'Remove, remove thy searching gaze, Innocent of heaven's ways, Brood not, Moon, so wildly bright, On secrets hidden from sight.' 'Secrets,' sighs the night-wind, 'Vacancy is all I find; Every keyhole I have made Wails a summons, faint and sad, No voice ever answers me, Only vacancy.' 'Once, once. . .' the cricket shrills, And far and near the quiet fills With its tiny voice, and then Hush falls again. Mute shadows creeping slow Mark how the hours go. Every stone is mouldering slow. And the least winds that blow Some minutest atom shake, Some fretting ruin make In roof and walls. How black it is Beneath these thick-boughed trees! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALONE (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE AN EPITAPH by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ARABIA by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE BUNCHES OF GRAPES by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ECHO by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ENGLAND (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE FARE WELL by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE FIVE EYES by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE JOHN MOULDY by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE MOTLEY by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE |
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