Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXPECTATION, by JANE BARLOW Poet's Biography First Line: Fleet wheels had whirled for us, deep hedge-rows threading Last Line: Swooped startled, as a bell began totoll. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives | ||||||||
FLEET wheels had whirled for us, deep hedgerows threading, Till where, down labyrinthine lanes enfolden, The grey, green-mantled church stood, half withholden From passing eyes by elms full-fledged for shedding Midsummer shade, noon-shrunken, softly spreading O'er swarded path a dappled pavement, golden And beryl-flecked, to a door, whose dusk-arch olden Let glimpse in hesitant gleams, the sill's gloom dreading. A knot of children, snowy-bibbed, blue-skirted, Hung round the gate, from devious ways diverted; Shawled crone's slow halt and girl's light foot one goal Had found thereby. Grand weather for whose wedding? Methought: and straight a daw from ivied steading Swooped startled, as a bell began totoll. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV A CURLEW'S CALL by JANE BARLOW |
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