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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHINESE PICTURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascend this path, whose stairway windings gleam Last Line: Once you command his secret, will not grudge your right. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund | |||
ASCEND this path, whose stairway windings gleam With ghosts of light through pine and cedar; rise, My thought, and gain each mountainous surprise, Each gulf of breath-like stone where the one stream Darts down its silver lightning; drink each turn Of curve and colour, implanted bliss or terror, Bow to the gods low-housing in the fern And at death's fox-holes they will outwit error; O rise among these fangy roots, these rocks In sledgy ruin ever edging -- strike Your foot like faith where armied dragon-shocks Have wrenched the burnt ridge into spur and spike; Question no sign; the hermit of the height, Once you command his secret, will not grudge your right. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOREFATHERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN REPORT ON EXPERIENCE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SOLUTIONS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE GIANT PUFFBALL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 11TH R.S.R. by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 1916 SEEN FROM 1921 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A 'FIRST IMPRESSION': TOKYO by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A BRIDGE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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