Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INHERITANCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What magic was that, and what the mystery Last Line: These the chance-come charm that bade me worship then? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | ||||||||
AH! what magic was that, and what the mystery In the Suffolk maiden's look that swiftly enchanted me, And held me prisoner? Love that could never be, For love for me had long since left his celestial tree -- Never from those boughs would the bright wings flash again. Standing and trembling, I in silence shone to The unknown divine look, and when she was gone too The countenance-light yet mastered my being, And all the garden round was lost to my seeing -- There was but this dynasty, where, gods, and when? God-seeking, bold, laborious, earth's companions, That long ago triumphing made the plough's dominions, Ladies whose lovely faith the long years stormed not, These all in one met, ghost-glowing, formed not These the chance-come charm that bade me worship then? | 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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