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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NOT THAT WAY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: No, no. Guard thee. Get thee gone
Last Line: Not that way!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: No, no. Guard thee. Get thee gone
Last Line: Not that way!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
No, no. Guard thee. Get thee gone.
Not that way.
See; the louring clouds glide on,
Skirting West to South; and see,
The green light under that sycamore tree --
Not that way.
There the leaden trumpets blow,
Solemn and slow.
There the everlasting walls
Frown above the waterfalls
Silver and cold;
Timelessly old:
Not that way.
Not toward Death, who, stranger, fairer,
Than any siren turns his head --
Than sea-couched siren, arched with rainbows,
Where knell the waves of her ocean bed.
Alas, that beauty hangs her flowers
For lure of his demoniac powers:
Alas, that from these eyes should dart
Such piercing summons to thy heart;
That mine in frenzy of longing beats,
Still lusting for these gross deceits.
Not that way!
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