Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BAB-LOCK-HYTHE, by LAURENCE BINYON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the time of wild roses Last Line: Our hearts sang together. Subject(s): Birds; Thames (river) | ||||||||
IN the time of wild roses As up Thames we travelled Where 'mid water-weeds ravelled The lily uncloses, To his old shores the river A new song was singing, And young shoots were springing On old roots for ever. Dog-daisies were dancing, And flags flamed in cluster, On the dark stream a lustre Now blurred and now glancing. A tall reed down-weighing The sedge-warbler fluttered; One sweet note he uttered, Then left it soft-swaying. By the bank's sandy hollow My dipt oars went beating, And past our bows fleeting Blue-backed shone the swallow. High woods, heron-haunted, Rose, changed, as we rounded Old hills greenly mounded, To meadows enchanted. A dream ever moulded Afresh for our wonder, Still opening asunder For the stream many-folded; Till sunset was rimming The West with pale flushes; Behind the black rushes The last light was dimming; And the lonely stream, hiding Shy birds, grew more lonely, And with us was only The noise of our gliding. In cloud of gray weather The evening o'erdarkened, In the stillness we hearkened; Our hearts sang together. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVER TO THE THAMES OF LONDON TO FAVOUR HIS LADY ... by GEORGE TURBERVILLE IMPRESSION DU MATIN by OSCAR WILDE SYMPHONY IN YELLOW by OSCAR WILDE A DESCRIPTION OF LONDON by JOHN BANCKS THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 2 by WILLIAM BASSE THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: AUGUST. ON THE THAMES by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A BALLAD OF THE UPPER THAMES by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE FOR THE FALLEN (SEPTEMBER 1914) by LAURENCE BINYON |
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