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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POETRY BY THE WAY-SIDE, by JOHN HANMER First Line: Wandering along the vision-haunted way Last Line: The shows of things conformed to his desires. | |||
Wandering along the vision-haunted way, One did I meet, whom straight my heart did know; But in strange seeming he was pleased to go, And quaint, as by the forest-brook the jay; The leaf-hid brook, with one particular ray That the sun gilds, and of his orbed glow Gives thence suggestion to the sense; e'en so On mine the quick poetic spirit did play, From a feather in the head of one who followed A trade associate with the tortoise-shell, Client of Mercury, through the towns and shires, A rude Autolycus with hat rain-hollowed; And still, as droopt fantastically it fell, The shows of things conformed to his desires. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HIS WIFE ON THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, WITH A RING by SAMUEL BISHOP AN ANCIENT PROPHECY by PHILIP FRENEAU THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON LOW; A MIDSUMMER LEGEND by MARY HOWITT TREES ON THE CALAIS ROAD by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ON A SCOTCH COXCOMB by ROBERT BURNS BALLADE OF THE FOREST IN SUMMER by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS |
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