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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PICTURE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is a sea-legged sailor
Last Line: The painter has kept to himself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Here is a sea-legged sailor
Last Line: The painter has kept to himself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Here is a sea-legged sailor,
Come to this tottering inn,
Just when the bronze on its signboard is fading,
And the black shades of evening begin.
With his head on his paws sleeps a sheepdog,
There stoops the shepherd, and see,
All follow-my-leader the ducks waddle homeward,
Under the sycamore tree.
Burned brown is the face of the sailor;
His bundle is crimson; and green
Are the thick leafy boughs that hang dense o'er the tavern;
And blue the far meadows between.
But the crust, ale and cheese of the sailor,
His mug and his platter of Delf,
And the crescent to light home the shepherd and sheepdog
The painter has kept to himself.
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