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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 88. A DAY IN SUSSEX, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dove did lend me wings. I fled away Last Line: It glimmers yet across whole years like these. Subject(s): Sussex, England | |||
THE dove did lend me wings. I fled away From the loud world which long had troubled me. Oh lightly did I flee when hoyden May Threw her wild mantle on the hawthorn-tree. I left the dusty high-road, and my way Was through deep meadows, shut with copses fair. A choir of thrushes poured its roundelay From every hedge and every thicket there. Mild, moon-faced kine looked on, where in the grass All heaped with flowers I lay, from noon till eve. And hares unwitting close to me did pass, And still the birds sang, and I could not grieve. Oh what a blessed thing that evening was! Peace, music, twilight, all that could deceive A soul to joy or lull a heart to peace. It glimmers yet across whole years like these. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OUR SUSSEX DOWNS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH WORTH FOREST by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE GUNS IN SUSSEX by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE RUN OF THE DOWNS by RUDYARD KIPLING BEACHY HEAD by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 31. WRITTEN IN FARM WOOD, SOUTH DOWNS by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 33. TO THE NAIAD OF THE ARUN by CHARLOTTE SMITH ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 50 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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