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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BUDDING MORROW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I woke, the sapphire sky Last Line: And laughed to have been mistaken. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English | |||
WHEN I woke, the sapphire sky Through the panes was gazing; Bright the wind was waving by The chestnuts' yellow blazing. When I went abroad, the land Proclaimed a new dominion, The slow black lanes which ploughs had planned Shone vital and virginian. Where the last night's seething rain Lay in my neighbour's hiring, It glittered mist and fire amain, Sun-desired, desiring. Old hares limped from frond to frond, With joy half-mastering terror, And lonely trees blushed rose beyond Like Venus in a mirror. Oak-woods that heard the rill-like gush Of western wind's compassion Let fall their leaves, and then fell hush For new annunciation. I who had drooped the last eve's hours To think the year forsaken Saw all the air bloom with fine flowers, And laughed to have been mistaken. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE GHOSTS IN ENGLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND by LIAM RECTOR STONE AND FLOWER by KENNETH REXROTH THE HANGED MAN by KENNETH REXROTH ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT by JOHN UPDIKE ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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