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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DAY REMORSEFUL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day remorseful, heavy, dun Last Line: Its shadow and its sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Remorse | |||
A DAY remorseful, heavy, dun, Had overcast the skies, As though the winter-vanquished sun Would never more arise. Brown trees drew out of blurred wet air A mockery of pearls, And tiny brooks seemed everywhere To speak in slakes and swirls. There was no hope within their home, There was not even bread: Within was gloom, without was gloom, And surely God seemed dead. Among the clenching mists they went, Along the lonely road, With nothing but their thoughts that meant More than a traveller's load -- By black ponds dull with dying sags, By heavy-hearted moors, By sheep-lanes trod to clogging quags, By uncouth farmyard stores. Ah, Christmas day all penniless, When these were brought so low! Yet now they feel from that dead stress A sullen pleasure grow; Most like the yew all stern and dark That grows in churchyard ground: The sexton has some pride to mark Its shadow and its sound. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER by JOHN DONNE A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 54 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE ODE TO REMORSE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS (3) by GORDON BOTTOMLEY THIS SUMMER WIND, WITH THEE AND ME by EMILY JANE BRONTE NATURE'S REMORSES; ROME, 1861 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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