Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VAICES THAT BE GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When evenen sheades o' trees do hide Last Line: Do miss the vaïces gone. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Grief; Memory; Night; Voices; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime | ||||||||
When evenèn sheädes o' trees do hide A body by the hedge's zide, An' twitt'rèn birds, wi' plaÿsome flight, Do vlee to roost at comèn night, Then I do saunter out o' zight In orcha'd, where the pleäce woonce rung Wi' laughs a-laugh'd an' zongs a-zung By vaïces that be gone. There's still the tree that bore our swing, An' others where the birds did zing; But long-leav'd docks do overgrow The groun' we trampled beäre below, Wi' merry skippèns to an' fro Bezide the banks, where Jim did zit A-plaÿèn o' the clarinit To vaïces that be gone. How mother, when we us'd to stun Her head wi' all our naïsy fun, Did wish us all a-gone vrom hwome: An' now that zome be dead, an' zome A-gone, an' all the pleäce is dum', How she do wish, wi' useless tears, To have ageän about her ears The vaïces that be gone. Vor all the maïdens an' the bwoys But I, be marri'd off all woys, Or dead an' gone; but I do bide At hwome, alwone, at mother's zide, An' often, at the evenèn-tide, I still do saunter out, wi' tears, Down drough the orcha'd, where my ears Do miss the vaïces gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN A WINTER NIGHT by WILLIAM BARNES |
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