Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOLD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: Sighed the wind to the wheat
Last Line: Kiss me! Kiss me!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


Sighed the wind to the wheat: --
'The Queen who is slumbering there,
Once bewildered the rose;
Scorned, "Thou un-fair!"
Once, from that bird-whirring court,
Ascended the ruinous stair.
Aloft, on that weed-hung turret, suns
Smote on her hair --
Of a gold by Archiac sought,
Of a gold sea-hid,
Of a gold that from core of quartz
No flame shall bid
Pour into light of the air
For God's Jews to see.'

Mocked the wheat to the wind: --
'Kiss me! Kiss me!'





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