Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HYLAS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jar in arm, they bade him rove Last Line: "keep -- young!"" but who knows how?)" Subject(s): Youth | ||||||||
JAR in arm, they bade him rove Thro' the alder's long alcove, Where the hid spring musically Gushes to the ample valley. (There's a bird on the under bough Fluting evermore and now: "Keep -- young!" but who knows how?) Down the woodland corridor, Odors deepened more and more; Blossomed dogwood, in the briers, Struck her faint delicious fires; Miles of April passed between Crevices of closing green, And the moth, the violet-lover, By the wellside saw him hover. Ah, the slippery sylvan dark! Never after shall he mark Noisy ploughman drinking, drinking, On his drowned cheek down-sinking; Quit of serving is that wild, Absent, and bewitched child, Unto action, age, and danger, Thrice a thousand years a stranger. Fathoms low, the naiads sing In a birthday welcoming; Water-white their breasts, and o'er him, Water-gray, their eyes adore him. (There's a bird on the under bough Fluting evermore and now: "Keep -- young!" but who knows how?) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN A FRIEND'S SONG FOR SIMOISIUS by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY |
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