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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WILDERNESS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On lonely kinton green all day Last Line: Down to the bull for pipe and glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English | |||
ON lonely Kinton Green all day The half-blind tottering plough-horse grieves, Dim chimes and crowings far away Come drifting down the wind like leaves; And there the wood's a coloured mist, So close the blackthorns intertwist, -- The blackthorns hung with clinging sloes Blue-veiled to weather coming cold, And ruby-tasselled shepherd's-rose Where flock the finches plumed with gold, And swarming brambles laden still Though boys and wasps have ate their fill. Here shining out on lubber boughs The lantern crabs pierce gold with light The smoke that mouldering leaves unhouse, Like stars in frost as spear-point-bright: And here the blackbird deign to choose His blood-red haws by ones and twos. Cob-spider runs his glistening maze To murder doddering hungry flies, Curt echo mocks the mocking jays, The partridge in the stubble cries; And Hob and Nob unpausing pass Down to the Bull for pipe and glass. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE GHOSTS IN ENGLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND by LIAM RECTOR STONE AND FLOWER by KENNETH REXROTH THE HANGED MAN by KENNETH REXROTH ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT by JOHN UPDIKE ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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