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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOX'S DINGLE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Take now a country mood
Last Line: In snow-cool water.
Variant Title(s): A Country Mood
Subject(s): Country Life
First Line: Take now a country mood
Last Line: In snow-cool water.
Variant Title(s): A Country Mood
Subject(s): Country Life
TAKE now a country mood,
Resolve, distil it;
Nine Acre swaying alive,
June flowers that fill it,
Spicy sweetbriar bush,
The uneasy wren
Fluttering from ash to birch
And back again,
Milkwort on its low stem,
Spread hawthorn-tree,
Sunlight patching the wood,
A hive-bound bee,
Girls riding nim-nim-nim,
Ladies, trot-trot,
Gentlemen hard at gallop,
Shouting, steam-hot.
Now over the rough turf
Bridles go jingle,
And there's a well-loved pool
By Fox's Dingle
Where, Sweetheart, my brown mare,
Old Glory's daughter,
May loll her leathern tongue
In snow-cool water.
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