Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SUNKEN GARDEN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: Speak not - whisper not
Last Line: That one little leaden lad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening


Speak not -- whisper not;
Here bloweth thyme and bergamot;
Softly on the evening hour,
Secret herbs their spices shower.
Dark-spiked rosemary and myrrh,
Lean-stalked purple lavender;
Hides within her bosom, too,
All her sorrows, bitter rue.

Breathe not -- trespass not;
Of this green and darkling spot,
Latticed from the moon's beams,
Perchance a distant dreamer dreams;
Perchance upon its darkening air,
The unseen ghosts of children fare,
Faintly swinging, sway and sweep,
Like lovely sea-flowers in the deep;
While, unmoved, to watch and ward,
Amid its gloomed and daisied sward,
Stands with bowed and dewy head
That one little leaden Lad.





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