|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SECRET, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The starbeam lights, a touch, a breath
Last Line: Storms with young force the general land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
First Line: The starbeam lights, a touch, a breath
Last Line: Storms with young force the general land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
THE starbeam lights, a touch, a breath,
On a rover in midnight mood,
In rapture with his houseless heath,
Warm furze-perfume, stern mountain-wreath
Of pines, and a water-music beneath,
And shades that lived before Stonehenge stood.
That far-spent patient messenger still
Woos him with sigh-soft hand,
Appeals through endlessness until
Response awakes with as deep a thrill
As when dawn's gale of splendour shrill
Storms with young force the general land.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
FOREFATHERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
REPORT ON EXPERIENCE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
SOLUTIONS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
THE GIANT PUFFBALL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
11TH R.S.R. by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
1916 SEEN FROM 1921 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
A 'FIRST IMPRESSION': TOKYO by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
A BRIDGE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN