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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INACCESSIBILITY IN THE BATTLEFIELD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgotten streams, yet wishful to be known Last Line: The rampart where the sleepless phantom strode. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; First World War | |||
FORGOTTEN streams, yet wishful to be known, With humble moan In rushy channels working, called us on; These might have with as good result Remained occult And gray and dumb; For where they curled and called we could not come. Some tottering hut they called the Moated Grange Bade our steps range And cramped routine for rural loves exchange; That thatched spectre might as well With some fierce shell Have sunk to earth; A jealous god declined our going forth. And that delightful maybush, that above The dead mill-drove With rose-lipped courtesy and whispering love Enchanted, was not ours to touch. Between, this grutch, This staring curse Made a blind wall, and kept our lips averse. The simple road proposed most kind desires For further spires, Hearths, garden-grots, dove-cots; but fang-fixed wires And ambushed airy murder lay All day, that way; A simple road, -- The rampart where the sleepless phantom strode. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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