Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MORNING PIECE; WRITTEN IN ABSENCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucky and pretty light! Smiling on me Last Line: To give me back those distant dead alive! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | ||||||||
LUCKY and pretty Light! smiling on me All this blue rustling morning, may your grace Call up my joy in every place Which by your rays I see: My joy! A starveling prayer and cold; There shall be joy a millionfold. Let your child-gleam visit each twinkling steep Where still a Corydon loves his fine sheep, Or, still, true labourer, grumbling As he goes, rattling and rumbling, The white mill shows the valley how to work, Hurling his great arms round; but far away The water-mill, as staunch a patriarch, Has plunged afresh into the early day. The bold stream thunders through the weir And music fills the angler's ear. Some last soft misty swathes, dear Hour, dispel From lawns that lie beside a sleepier stream, Till all the fragrant scheme Of peaceful men who know their flowers as well As bees do burns rich for the conquering bees. Then over lattices Of seagreen glass, and gables full of nests, The proud eye rests On the arrowy spire, now like a soaring flame, As though, God's word being Light, it answered with the same. My dream, I'll catch you yet; my Light, Illude no more; light speaks with sight, And dream Light surely alone discloses Beside these spires and rills and roses Melodies as if they grew Clear as poplars on the view! Dream? I am here and I am now, But there and then bedew my brow; The twofold air is jewelled with the singing Of far-off youth, old Whitsun bells are ringing; This sunbeam's pearl, this trilling breeze contrive To give me back those distant dead alive! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOREFATHERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN REPORT ON EXPERIENCE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SOLUTIONS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE GIANT PUFFBALL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 11TH R.S.R. by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 1916 SEEN FROM 1921 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A 'FIRST IMPRESSION': TOKYO by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A BRIDGE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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