Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ARTIST ON PENMAENMAWR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: That first september day was blue and warm Last Line: Among the snowy gulls and summer spray.' Subject(s): September; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen | ||||||||
That first September day was blue and warm, Flushing the shaly flanks of Penmaenmawr; While youths and maidens, in the lucid calm Exulting, bath'd or bask'd from hour to hour; What colour-passion did the artist feel! While evermore the jarring trains went by, Now, as for evermore, in fancy's eye, Smutch'd with the cruel fires of Abergele; Then fell the dark o'er the great crags and downs, And all the night-struck mountain seem'd to say, 'Farewell! these happy skies, this peerless day! And these fair seas -- and, fairer still than they, The white-arm'd girls in dark blue bathing-gowns, Among the snowy gulls and summer spray.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON WALES VISITATION by ALLEN GINSBERG WELSH INCIDENT by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE by THOMAS GRAY THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT by THOMAS GRAY WELSH LANDSCAPE by RONALD STUART THOMAS HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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