Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scent of bramble fills the air Last Line: On winter-haunted trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Fairy Tales | ||||||||
The scent of bramble fills the air, Amid her folded sheets she lies, The gold of evening in her hair, The blue of morn shut in her eyes. How many a changing moon hath lit The unchanging roses of her face! Her mirror ever broods on it In silver stillness of the days. Oft flits the moth on filmy wings Into his solitary lair; Shrill evensong the cricket sings From some still shadow in her hair. In heat, in snow, in wind, in flood, She sleeps in lovely loneliness, Half-folded like an April bud On winter-haunted trees. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KISSING THE TOAD by GALWAY KINNELL IF, MY DARLING by PHILIP LARKIN AN EMBROIDERY by DENISE LEVERTOV THE WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS by THYLIAS MOSS READING THE BROTHERS GRIMM TO JENNY by LISEL MUELLER TWO LINES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM; FOR LARRY AND JUDY RAAB by GREGORY ORR THIS ENCHANTED FOREST: 5. GRETEL by LINDA PASTAN LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD by ANNE SEXTON ALL THAT'S PAST by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE |
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