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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THAMES GULLS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful it is to see Last Line: And inaccessible as dido's phantom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; London; Seagulls | |||
Beautiful it is to see On London Bridge the bold-eyed seabirds wheel, And hear them cry, and all for a light-flung crust Fling us their wealth, their freedom, speed and gleam. And beautiful to see Them that pass by lured by these birds to stay, And smile and say "how tame they are" -- how tame! Friendly as stars to steersmen in mid seas, And as remote as midnight's darling stars, Pleasant as voices heard from days long done, As nigh the hand as windflowers in the woods, And inaccessible as Dido's phantom. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966 by CHARLES OLSON A POEM BY GARNIE BRAXTON by JAMES WRIGHT GULLS by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A GULL GOES UP by LEONIE ADAMS UNDER THE WHARF by IDA COLE BARTLATT THE SEAGULL by HERBERT BASHFORD ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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