Classic and Contemporary Poetry
II PETER II 22, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, the new year succeeds the dead Last Line: The heights which crowned a deadlier year. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Time; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
HARK, the new year succeeds the dead, The bells make haste, the news is spread; And day by day "Farther away," "Farther away" tolls through my head. Here slinking Slyness rules the roost And brags and pimps, as he was used Before the day Now far away Saw him to's puny self reduced. And Quarrel with her hissing tongue And hen's eye gobbles gross along To snap that prey That marched away To save her carcass, better hung. Come, infant Hour, though much I fear Thy bright will shew more blackly clear How day by day Far fade away The heights which crowned a deadlier year. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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