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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECHO AND SILENCE, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poet's Biography First Line: In eddying course when leaves began to fly Last Line: With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill! Subject(s): Indian Summer; Mysticism | |||
In eddying course when leaves began to fly, And Autumn in her lap the store to strew, As mid wild scenes I chanced the Muse to woo, Through glens untrod, and woods that frowned on high, Two sleeping nymphs with wonder mute I spy! And, lo, she's gone! -- In robe of dark-green hue, 'T was Echo from her sister Silence flew, For quick the hunter's horn resounded to the sky! In shade affrighted Silence melts away. Not so her sister. Hark! for onward still, With far-heard step, she takes her listening way, Bounding from rock to rock, and hill to hill. Ah, mark the merry maid in mockful play With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE OUTWARD BOUND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN by ROBERT BROWNING THE BALLAD OF JUDAS ISCARIOT by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN KUBLA KHAN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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