Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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First Line: There was a knight once rode from out the sun
Last Line: Or came unto the marsh, I never knew.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Forests; Knights & Knighthood; Nightmares; Woods


There was a knight once rode from out the sun
Into a twilight wood, forever still.
It was a place for blue-eyed knights to shun,
For such are liefer to enchantments ill.
Deep in the wood he rode with head bent low . . .
There was no sound save tired leaves that fell.
His lance hung listless from his saddle bow;
Pale was his armor; pale his mouth as well.
The old adventures and the knightly bouts
Seemed faint and far as shapes in fever seen.
Because his dreams had died, but not his doubts,
His eyes were grey that had been blue, I ween.

But whether he that haunted wood passed through,
Or came unto the marsh, I never knew.





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