Edmund Charles Blunden

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Edmund Charles Blunden Long Poems

  • 1.
    Friend whom I never saw, yet dearest friend,
    Be with me travelling on the byeway now
    In April's month and mood: our steps shall bend
    By the shut smithy with its penthouse brow
    ...
  • 2.
    From what sad star I know not, but I found
    Myself new-born below the coppice rail,
    No bigger than the dewdrops and as round,
    In a soft sward, no cattle might assail.
    ...
  • 3.
    At Quincey's moat the squandering village ends,
    And there in the almshouse dwell the dearest friends
    Of all the village, two old dames that cling
    As close as any trueloves in the spring.
    ...
  • 4.
    I came to the churchyard where pretty Joy lies
    On a morning in April, a rare sunny day;
    Such bloom rose around, and so many birds' cries
    That I sang for delight as I followed the way.
    ...
Total 4 Long Poems by Edmund Charles Blunden

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