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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POETRY BY THE WAY-SIDE, by JOHN HANMER First Line: Wandering along the vision-haunted way Last Line: The shows of things conformed to his desires. | |||
Wandering along the vision-haunted way, One did I meet, whom straight my heart did know; But in strange seeming he was pleased to go, And quaint, as by the forest-brook the jay; The leaf-hid brook, with one particular ray That the sun gilds, and of his orbed glow Gives thence suggestion to the sense; e'en so On mine the quick poetic spirit did play, From a feather in the head of one who followed A trade associate with the tortoise-shell, Client of Mercury, through the towns and shires, A rude Autolycus with hat rain-hollowed; And still, as droopt fantastically it fell, The shows of things conformed to his desires. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LUNCH AT A CLUB by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET RESOLUTION OF DEPENDENCE by GEORGE BARKER MESSMATES by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT GO NOW' by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS COMPOSED BY THE SIDE OF GRASMERE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS by W. T. ADAMS A SONNET. OF LOVE by PHILIP AYRES HER ANSWER by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) |
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