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



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First Line: The bindweed roots pierce down
Last Line: Brimmed with reflected day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


The bindweed roots pierce down
Deeper than men do lie,
Laid in their dark-shut graves
Their slumbering kinsmen by.

Yet what frail thin-spun flowers
She casts into the air,
To breathe the sunshine, and
To leave her fragrance there.

But when the sweet moon comes,
Showering her silver down,
Half-wreathed in faint sleep,
They droop where they have blown.

So all the grass is set,
Beneath her trembling ray,
With buds that have been flowers,
Brimmed with reflected day.





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