Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WENDOVER, by JEAN INGELOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uplifted and lone, set apart with our love Last Line: Low lying on wendover town.' Subject(s): Life; Love; Peace; Shadows | ||||||||
UPLIFTED and lone, set apart with our love On the crest of a soft swelling down, Cloud shadows that meet on the grass at our feet Sail on above Wendover town. Wendover town takes the smile of the sun As if yearning and strife were unknown, From her red roofs float high neither plaint neither sigh, All the weight of the world is our own. Would that life were more kind and that souls might have peace As the wide mead from storm and from bale, We bring up our own care, but how sweet over there And how strange is their calm in the vale. As if trouble at noon had achieved a deep sleep, Lapped and lulled from the weariful fret, Or shot down out of day, had a hint dropt away As if grief might attain to forget. Not if we two indeed had gone over the bourne And were safe on the hills of the blest, Not more strange they might show to us drawn from below, Come up from long dolour to rest. But the peace of that vale would be thine, love, and mine, And sweeter the air than of yore, And this life we have led as a dream that is fled Might appear to our thought evermore. 'Was it life, was it life?' we might say. ''t was scarce life,' 'Was it love? 't was scarce love,' looking down, 'Yet we mind a sweet ray of the red sun one day Low lying on Wendover town.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ANIMAL INSIDE THE ANIMAL by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN DRIVING ALONGSIDE THE HOUSANTONIC RIVER ALONE ON A RAINY APRIL NIGHT by WILLIAM MATTHEWS NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY by CONRAD AIKEN SONATA IN PATHOS by CONRAD AIKEN I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE by JAMES GALVIN ECHO AND THE FERRY by JEAN INGELOW GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL by JEAN INGELOW |
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