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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE INVIOLATE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There on the white pacific shore the pines Last Line: Swan-like between the mountain and the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Japanese | |||
THERE on the white Pacific shore the pines Still serve their jealous gods, and late and soon The murmur runs along their rugged lines, "What black ship waits the crash of our typhoon?" And in this vigil circled, calm and proud, God-gates and temples glow with changeless noon, Their mysteries awing that young seraph-cloud Swan-like between the mountain and the moon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHOMEI AT TOYAMA by BASIL BUNTING SONG: SO OFTEN, SO LONG I HAVE THOUGHT by HAYDEN CARRUTH A MONTH IN SUMMER by CAROLYN KIZER TWO JAPANESE POEMS by WILLIAM MEREDITH KEEP DRIVING by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER A WALKAROUND, FOR NEKO; KAMAKURA 11/10/96 by JEROME ROTHENBERG AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1 by JEROME ROTHENBERG ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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