|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WOULD YOU RETURN?, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet's Biography
First Line: Poppies never brighter shone, and never sweeter smelled the hay
Last Line: The sun pale peering at the shag-haired storm that swooped on avalon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Avalon (legend)
First Line: Poppies never brighter shone, and never sweeter smelled the hay
Last Line: The sun pale peering at the shag-haired storm that swooped on avalon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Avalon (legend)
POPPIES never brighter shone, and never sweeter smelled the hay,
The town with its steeples looked made of silver all the way,
Down in the streamy valley like a treasure that town lay.
Who was not with me there? who in that crystal air
Hastened not beside me on the springy grass, did not stare
Miles ahead where those bright tops of mansioned hope were gems aflare?
Come then, know again this same knoll we paused upon,
These poplars with their flashing wind, this singing rill, this silent stone --
The sun pale peering at the shag-haired storm that swooped on Avalon!
Discover our poem explanations - click here!
Other Poems of Interest...
KING HERMANDIAZ by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON
LOST LANDS by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH
SONG OF APPLE-TREES by WILLIAM SHARP
ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN
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