Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CROWN INN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes Last Line: While empires shudder into night. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses | ||||||||
ROUND all its nooks and corners goes The evening talk, in this old inn; The darkening room by use well knows Each thread of life that these upspin. The triumphs of the wooer, player, Eclogues of praise for mead and beer, The fabled wealth, the generous fair Ring round the wonted changes here. In elmtrees' gloom the western ray Drowns, the sad cloud steals like a shroud Drawn over one that died to-day, And to my spirit memory-bowed The world with all its wars and wails Seems turning slow; but here are some With whom no black gazette prevails, Whom no disaster renders dumb. Against the thunderclouds of race Their cottage candles give them light, They like their clocks keep one same pace While empires shudder into night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW by TIMOTHY LIU REMOVED AT THE MOMENT OF PERFECTION by TIMOTHY LIU MARRY AT A HOTEL, ANNUL ?ÇÖEM by HARRYETTE MULLEN THE KEEPER OF THE DEAD HOTEL by AGHA SHAHID ALI IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C. by HAYDEN CARRUTH OUTSIDE ROOM SIX by LYNN EMANUEL ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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