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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STUDY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I sit penning plans of dead affairs Last Line: Know they are for the singing and the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Home | |||
WHILE I sit penning plans of dead affairs, And hardly pause but when some wilder gust Drives the mist shower with a more savage thrust Against my window, hark! what sweeter cares Find a shy voice, that makes my writing cease, And in this room of shelves, and books, and files, The ranked and crested past, what pleasure smiles! The dead withdraw, the living shares their peace. For down my chimney with the dripping rain Come tiny trills and chirps and silvery notes Like whistling mice; it's nesting-time again; There in the dimness gape what eager throats Of the new brood, who through this tempest dun Know they are for the singing and the sun! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EL FLORIDA ROOM by RICHARD BLANCO DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN TO THIS HOUSE by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE UPSTAIRS ROOM by WELDON KEES HOME IS SO SAD by PHILIP LARKIN DUTCH INTERIOR by DAVID LEHMAN ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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