Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIBERTINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer-time when haymaking's there Last Line: And a dryad will peep when she thinks I'm asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English | ||||||||
IN summer-time when haymaking's there And master fish leap out of the pools, I'll take an oak for my easy chair, Be club and president, ruler and rules. The dew of the dawn there haunts all day, The silver ripple and willow-wren chime; The bee will pass on his gipsying way And everything dote on summer-time. If sweet it is to be safe ashore When the merchantman plunges into the trough, I think that ambush is sweetness galore Whence I may study, some furlongs off, Old ale-faced industry mopping his brow, Hot shouldering and shaping heap on heap, While I sit under the church-cool bough And a Dryad will peep when she thinks I'm asleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE GHOSTS IN ENGLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND by LIAM RECTOR STONE AND FLOWER by KENNETH REXROTH THE HANGED MAN by KENNETH REXROTH ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT by JOHN UPDIKE ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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