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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS OF MANHOOD: SONNET 24. BALCOMBE FOREST, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) First Line: O strange sequestered sunny silent land Last Line: Behind whose green walls lay the grey wild sea. | |||
O strange sequestered sunny silent land Where fairies exiled from man's haunts, might dwell! Land of the great fern and the heather-bell And larch and pine and beech-bole gnarled and grand And trout-streams brown and lanes of rufous sand And many a deep-green shrouded mystic dell And silver-gleaming lake and mossy fell,— Shall I again within thy borders stand?— Thou hast an inland splendour all thine own. And yet thy tenderest delight to me Was,—not thy soft and deep streams' silver tone, Nor yet the glory of heather-purpled lea,— But that one summit whence far hills were shown, Behind whose green walls lay the grey wild sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A PRAYER by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) A VINDICATION by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) AN ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) AUTUMN MESSAGES by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) ENVOI: DEATH (1) by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) ENVOI: DEATH (2) by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) FOR EVER AND EVERMORE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) IF ONLY THOU ART TRUE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) LILIES: 1. THE GREAT WAVE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) LILIES: 10. SOUL-PAIN by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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