Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WATERPIECE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild-rose bush lets loll Last Line: Incomparably wise, the doom of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English | ||||||||
THE wild-rose bush lets loll Her sweet-breathed petals on the pool, The bream-pool overshadowed with the cool Of oaks where myriad mumbling wings patrol. There the live dimness burrs with droning glees Of hobby-horses with their starting eyes And violet humble-bees and dizzy flies; That from the dewsprings drink the honeyed lees. Up the slow stream the immemorial bream (For when had Death dominion over them?) Through green pavilions of ghost leaf and stem, A conclave of blue shadows in a dream, Glide on; idola that forgotten plan, Incomparably wise, the doom of man. | 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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