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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAERCHEN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Soundless the moth-flit, crisp the death-watch tick
Last Line: The cat looked long and softly at the king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Soundless the moth-flit, crisp the death-watch tick
Last Line: The cat looked long and softly at the king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Soundless the moth-flit, crisp the death-watch tick;
Crazed in her shaken arbour bird did sing;
Slow wreathed the grease adown from soot-clogged wick:
The Cat looked long and softly at the King.
Mouse frisked and scampered, leapt, gnawed, squeaked;
Small at the window looped cowled bat a-wing;
The dim-lit rafters with the night-mist reeked:
The Cat looked long and softly at the King.
O wondrous robe enstarred, in night dyed deep:
O air scarce-stirred with the Court's far junketing:
O stagnant Royalty -- A-swoon? Asleep?
The Cat looked long and softly at the King.
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