Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROLOGUE (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come - brisk pink, and wilding rose Last Line: A waif indeed, alas, but not from love a-stray. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter | ||||||||
Summer is come -- brisk pink, and wilding rose, And all the enchantment which this England knows, When honeyed hours of sunshine clearly bright Steal on in beauty to'rds how brief a night; While yet the cuckoo calls her hollows through -- Two faltering grace notes, now, to every 'oo -- Till the harsh piping of each nesting brood Fall mute; and sweet-tongued from his solitude The lingering nightingale in dingle or dell Sings even the lovelier since he sings, Farewell. Alas, that June should fade; that time should be So rich yet fugitive a pageantry. Forsake it then awhile, and with us fly Into the past where nothing now can die: Where even the young and lovely, old and staid, Live on unchanged -- of purest fantasy made. Here, then, another pageant; take your ease, Your hearts attuned to welcome refugees. See; now they come -- in semblance of a Masque -- Craving your credence -- it is all they ask. Charles is enthroned; the Plague is o'er, the Fire That burned half London, in disaster dire, Is smouldering out; yet not extinct all fears: For lo, a child is lost, and still in tears! Comfort will come to her full soon. . . But nay; I'm telling secrets -- She is in the Play; A waif indeed, alas, but not from Love a-stray. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALONE (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE AN EPITAPH by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ARABIA by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE BUNCHES OF GRAPES by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ECHO by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ENGLAND (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE FARE WELL by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE FIVE EYES by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE JOHN MOULDY by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE MOTLEY by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE |
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