Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORNITHOPOLIS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not your least glory, many-gloried wren Last Line: With loud-tongued gossip of an age of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds | ||||||||
Suggested by an Excellent Article, "Starlings in London," by Mr. Eric Parker, "Spectator," March 6th, 1926. NOT your least glory, many-gloried Wren, Springs from these birds, that to your immense Dome When eve grows glassy cold and clear, come home From fallow and blue fen; Each flying to his mansion overhead, The guest of genius, sure of man at last, Though maelstrom roars and wild light volleys vast, Each calm and glad abed. Never was covenant nor entente like this, Which still shall gather confidence and joy; Man's city chosen the birds' metropolis, Whole myriads taken with a fair decoy! Through tree and chimney-top the news is told, With loud-tongued gossip of an age of gold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GLIMPSES OF THE BIRDS by JOHN HOLLANDER GLIMPSES OF THE BIRDS by JOHN HOLLANDER AUDUBON EXAMINES A BITTERN by ANDREW HUDGINS DISPATCHES FROM DEVEREUX SLOUGH by MARK JARMAN A COUNTRY LIFE by RANDALL JARRELL CANADIAN WARBLER by GALWAY KINNELL YELLOW BIRD by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE CRIPPLE by KARLE WILSON BAKER ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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