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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IDLERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew Last Line: And not one of them all seemed to know the name of care. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Gypsies; Landscape; English; Gipsies | |||
THE gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew, And the hoppled horses supped in the further dusk and dew; The gnats flocked round the smoke like idlers as they were And through the goss and bushes the owls began to churr. An ell above the woods the last of sunset glowed With a dusky gold that filled the pond beside the road; The cricketers had done, the leas all silent lay, And the carrier's clattering wheels went past and died away. The gipsies lolled and gossiped, and ate their stolen swedes, Made merry with mouth-organs, worked toys with piths of reeds: The old wives puffed their pipes, nigh as black as their hair, And not one of them all seemed to know the name of care. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ASSIMILATION OF THE GYPSIES by LARRY LEVIS THE SCHOLAR GIPSY by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE GYPSY by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS |
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