Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNTEACHABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To some, thoughts flying into futurity's cloud Last Line: To eat his bit of dinner, out of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | ||||||||
To some, thoughts flying into futurity's cloud; To some, pale provings mocking time and space; To some, the puzzling out to-day's hoarse crowd; To each his own: I run a backward race. I have been wandering distant roads, have striven To win new comprehensions; much in vain. There's that within me cares not what is given By such migrations; of a stubborn grain, This Hodge-like serf and tyrant trudges on, Grudges and growls at all my innovations, Lets new things go to rack when I am gone On other errands, sticks to's old vocations. Caelum, non animum -- nay, scarce he'll see An altered sky, and this, all said and done, I like him for; he'll sit by his old tree, To eat his bit of dinner, out of the sun. | 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 |
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