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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GAMESTERS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Three devils sate there, gloating on my sins
Last Line: Heard silence lighten round the violins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Variant Title(s): The Old Shrouders
First Line: Three devils sate there, gloating on my sins
Last Line: Heard silence lighten round the violins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Variant Title(s): The Old Shrouders
Three devils sate there, gloating on my sins,
In the dense music of thought's violins,
The whining, twining, pining violins.
Lean shone the tapers on them, chin and eye.
They diced and chaffered while the dark flowed by;
Hour after hour the dark and stars flowed by.
They saw me not. From that cold mask no sign,
No signal shook from this lone soul of mine;
Blind were their presences to hint of mine.
Rejoiced I was to leave them fingering there
The short swift record of my earthly care;
Life's hapless evil its insistent care.
And like a child, who plucks a flower that blows --
Moon-cupped convolvulus or the clear briar rose --
And happy, in beauty, for a moment goes,
So I, in mercy, freed them from all my sins,
Heard lapse the whining of the violins;
Heard silence lighten round the violins.
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