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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE AUTHOR'S LAST WORDS TO HIS STUDENTS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive what I, adventuring highest themes Last Line: The voice of your devotion. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Tokyo Imperial University; Educators; Professors | |||
FORGIVE what I, adventuring highest themes, Have spoiled and darkened, and the awkward hand That longed to point the moral of man's dreams And shut the wicket-gates of fairyland: So by too harsh intrusion Left colourless confusion. For even the glories that I most revered, Seen through a gloomed perspective in strange mood, Were not what to our British seers appeared; I spoke of peace, I made a solitude, Herding with deathless graces My hobbling commonplaces. Forgive that eyeless lethargy which chilled Your ardours and I fear dimmed much fine gold -- What your bright passion, leaping ages, thrilled To find and claim, and I yet dared withhold; These and all chance offences Against your finer senses. And I will ever pray for your souls' health, Remembering how, deep-tasked yet eager-eyed, You loved imagination's commonwealth, Following with smiling wonder a frail guide Who bears beyond the ocean The voice of your devotion. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS POETRY STUDENTS by GALWAY KINNELL GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS by ROBERT BLY TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS by ROBERT BLY ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL by JOHN CIARDI HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT by NORMAN DUBIE OF POLITICS, & ART by NORMAN DUBIE SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST by NORMAN DUBIE ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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