Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG OF THE WULFSHAW LARCHES, by ERNEST RHYS Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of earth, let us be gone Last Line: Heart of earth, let us be gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): Larch Trees | ||||||||
HEART of Earth, let us be gone, From this rock where we have stayed While the sun has risen and shone Ten thousand times, and thrown our shade Always in the self-same place. Now the night draws on apace: The day is dying on the height, The wind brings cold sea-fragrance here, And cries, and restless murmurings, Now night is near, -- Of wings and feet that take to flight, Of furry feet and feathery wings That take their joyous flight at will Away and over the hiding hill, And into the land where the sun has fled. O let us go, as they have sped, -- The soft swift shapes that left us here, The gentle things that came and went And left us in imprisonment! Let us be gone, as they have gone, Away, and into the hidden lands; -- From rock and turf our roots uptear, Break from the clinging keeping bands, Out of this long imprisoning break; At last, our sunward journey take, And far, to-night, and farther on, -- Heart of Earth, let us be gone! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LARCH GROVE by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE LARCH WOOD SECRETS by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK LARCH TREES by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by ERNEST RHYS BRECHVA'S HARP-SONG by ERNEST RHYS DEAREST LITTLE ONE by ERNEST RHYS DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT by MARIANNE MOORE |
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