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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ZILLEBEKE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This conduit stream that's tangled here and there Last Line: On my way up to sanctuary wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Brooks; World War I; Streams; Creeks; First World War | |||
THIS conduit stream that's tangled here and there With rusted iron and shards of earthenware, And tawny-stained with ruin trolls across The tiny village battered into dross -- This muddy water chuckling in its run Takes wefts of colour from the April sun, And paints for fancy's eye a glassy burn Ribanded through a brake of Kentish fern, From some top spring beside a park's gray pale, Guarding a shepherded and steepled dale, Wherefrom the blue deep-coppiced uplands hear The dim cool noise of waters at a weir. And much too clear you bring it back to me, You dreary brook deformed with cruelty, Here where I halt to catch the day's best mood, On my way up to Sanctuary Wood. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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