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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim stars like snowflakes are fluttering in heaven Last Line: But I know isolation. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation | |||
DIM stars like snowflakes are fluttering in heaven, Down the cloud-mountains by wind-torrents riven; There are still chances, but one more than all Slowly burns out on the sea's dark wall -- The best ever given. One, the divinest, goes down to the dark, In a red sullen vanishing, a poor stifled spark. You, who have reason, were staring at this As though by your gaze it would clear the abyss -- It was once your sea-mark. Hear on the shore too the sighed monotones Of waves that in weakness slip past the purled stones; The seethe of blown sand round the dry fractured hull, Salt-reeds and tusked fence; hear the struck gull With death in his bones. Slow comes the net in, that's filled with frustration; Night ends the day of thwart discreation; I would be your miracle-worker, sad friend, Bid a music for you and a new star ascend, -- But I know isolation. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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