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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VACANT DAY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walked out in meadows green
Last Line: What kept him still away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: As I walked out in meadows green
Last Line: What kept him still away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
As I walked out in meadows green
I heard the summer noon resound
With call of myriad things unseen
That leapt and crept upon the ground.
High overhead the windless air
Throbbed with the homesick coursing cry
Of swifts that ranging everywhere
Woke echo in the sky.
Beside me, too, clear waters coursed
Which willow branches, lapsing low,
Breaking their crystal gliding forced
To sing as they did flow.
I listened; and my heart was dumb
With praise no language could express;
Longing in vain for him to come
Who had breathed such blessedness
On this fair world, wherein we pass
So chequered and so brief a stay;
And yearned in spirit to learn, alas,
What kept him still away.
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