Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MUFFLED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black ponds and boughs of clay and sulky sedge Last Line: When even the owls and bats are hesitating. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English | ||||||||
BLACK ponds and boughs of clay and sulky sedge Make their dull answer to the inquiring eye; With worrying weakness wrens flit through the hedge, And black rooks blot the south's thin jaundice sky; Black over heavy plough the lonely inn Stares without message at the far black mill, The dry leaves creep, one even dares to spin, The sun's last wish dies ere it reach the hill. With wrapt throat in the courtyard of the farm Maid waits for maid; bells call them, arm-in-arm, To Advent prayer; the half-lit church is waiting. Emmanuel, come! now, parson, hail that light -- God knows we need one in this glum black night, When even the owls and bats are hesitating. | 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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