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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chinese tombs / some, sqaures of shrubby trees, some, peaks and mounds Last Line: Ends those graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones | |||
The Chinese tombs, Some, squares of shrubby trees, some, peaks and mounds, But more like tile-roofed huts and cottages, Rise here and there among the fertile grounds. The spring day blooms Palely above them, and a warm tear falls At moments from her opening eyes upon Those hillocks and those walls; The encircling wheat and beans as yet are wan, With the dim stress of winter hardly gone; The green corn waves With the thin wind in its tall shroudage flowing, Above those graves; the living labourer's hoeing Ends those graves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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