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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CECIL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye little elves, who haunt sweet dells
Last Line: And return to us no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Ye little elves, who haunt sweet dells
Last Line: And return to us no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Ye little elves, who haunt sweet dells,
Where flowers with the dew commune,
I pray you hush the child, Cecil,
With windlike song.
O little elves, so white she lieth,
Each eyelid gentler than the flow'r
Of the bramble, and her fleecy hair
Like smoke of gold.
O little elves, her hands and feet
The angels muse upon, and God
Hath shut a glimpse of Paradise
In each blue eye.
O little elves, her tiny body
Like a white flake of snow it is,
Drooping upon the pale green hood
Of the chill snowdrop.
O little elves, with elderflower,
And pimpernel, and the white hawthorn,
Sprinkle the journey of her dreams:
And, little elves,
Call to her magically sweet,
Lest of her very tenderness
She do forsake this rough brown earth
And return to us no more.
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