Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRODIGAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream runs on with speed and leisure too Last Line: The splendid fish, the violet day. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | ||||||||
THE stream runs on with speed and leisure too, Is voice and silence both; be you that stream. The sylvan sunbeam finds the moss and dew, And gilds but mars them not; be you that beam. O see, my treasure, from our tread How the brave grass lifts its meek head. "In heaven like southern seas immense and blue Spring clouds laugh changing, changing, dazzling deep With wonders' masquerade; rich-tongued anew The foreign birds are come, young salmon leap In snowy splendours; through the copse Favonian wings brush the bright drops." The stream runs on, and I have loved to lie Prone at its cressy brink and drink and hear, The time will come when, at the point to die, I'll wish a spirit-stream as cool and clear; But be till then the birds in May, The splendid fish, the violet day. | 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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