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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LINNET, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon this leafy bush
Last Line: Might vanish in song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Linnets
First Line: Upon this leafy bush
Last Line: Might vanish in song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Linnets
Upon this leafy bush
With thorns and roses in it,
Flutters a thing of light,
A twittering linnet,
And all the throbbing world
Of dew and sun and air
By this small parcel of life
Is made more fair:
As if each bramble-spray
And mounded gold-wreathed furze,
Harebell and little thyme,
Were only hers;
As if this beauty and grace
Did to one bird belong,
And, at a flutter of wing,
Might vanish in song.
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