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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The scent of bramble fills the air
Last Line: On winter-haunted trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Fairy Tales
First Line: The scent of bramble fills the air
Last Line: On winter-haunted trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Fairy Tales
The scent of bramble fills the air,
Amid her folded sheets she lies,
The gold of evening in her hair,
The blue of morn shut in her eyes.
How many a changing moon hath lit
The unchanging roses of her face!
Her mirror ever broods on it
In silver stillness of the days.
Oft flits the moth on filmy wings
Into his solitary lair;
Shrill evensong the cricket sings
From some still shadow in her hair.
In heat, in snow, in wind, in flood,
She sleeps in lovely loneliness,
Half-folded like an April bud
On winter-haunted trees.
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