Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ANCIENT PATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rosy belief uplifts her spires Last Line: Come, my late and early love. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | ||||||||
ROSY belief uplifts her spires Anemone-frail in amaranth air That never hurts a thing: This river's highway leads us there, Hear how each crystal crisped spring Comes lightfoot down from shepherd shires, Comes past the stones and roots and briars To journey with this king. And Honesty on his boat with bales And bags and barrels laded sails; The merry wind knows that white wing! He sees those steeples, and he hails; And we'll go journeying there. You must be by me, then be gone, Then through the bush peep like a bird, And then with arm in mine step on, And like one in a legend sing, Or play with an angel word. The silver bream jumps out of the stream, Morn's diamonds ding from the blackbird's wing, And through long glades that gilt wing speeds -- We'll go where this green river leads And prismy light and bowing reeds To that sweet town, With lilies lulled, to that sweet town Whose airiest tiptoe chanticleer Gleams on the west wind all the year; Belief's our mark, we've crossed the down, Time brought the eagle -- now the dove! And there's her sparkling belvedere -- Come, my late and early love. | 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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