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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PLACE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms as old as may I scatter here Last Line: And, god! To hear the blackbird sing once more. | |||
BLOSSOMS as old as May I scatter here, And a blue wave I lifted from the stream. It shall not know when winter days are drear Or March is hoarse with blowing. But a-dream The laurel boughs shall hold a canopy Peacefully over it the winter long, Till all the birds are back from oversea, And April rainbows win a blackbird's song. And when the war is over I shall take My lute a-down to it and sing again Songs of the whispering things amongst the brake, And those I love shall know them by their strain. Their airs shall be the blackbird's twilight song, Their words shall be all flowers with fresh dews hoar. -- But it is lonely now in winter long, And, God! to hear the blackbird sing once more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EVENING IN ENGLAND by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE GROWING OLD by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE THOMAS MACDONAGH by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE A DREAM DANCE by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE A DREAM OF ARTEMIS by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE A FAIRY HUNT by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE A LITTLE BOY IN THE MORNING by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE A MOTHER'S SONG by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE |
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