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



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First Line: Leans now the fair willow, dreaming
Last Line: Burns the sun in the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


Leans now the fair willow, dreaming
Amid her locks of green.
In the driving snow she was parched and cold,
And in midnight hath been
Swept by blasts of the void night,
Lashed by the rains.
Now of that wintry dark and bleak
No memory remains.

In mute desire she sways softly;
Thrilling sap up-flows;
She praises God in her beauty and grace,
Whispers delight. And there flows
A delicate wind from the Southern seas,
Kissing her leaves. She sighs.
While the birds in her tresses make merry;
Burns the Sun in the skies.





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