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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PAN PIPES, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS First Line: Pan - did you say he was dead, that he'd gone Last Line: Just as he did long ago! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) | |||
PAN—did you say he was dead, that he'd gone, and for good— Gone with the Dryads and all of the shy forest faces? Who was it then plucked your sleeve as you came through the wood, What of the whisper that waits in the oddest of places? Pan of the garden, the fold, Pan of the bird and the beast, Kindly, he lives as of old, He isn't dead in the least! Yes, you may find him to-day (how the reeds twitter on, Tuneful, as once when he followed young Bacchus's leopards); Stiffer he may be, perhaps, since our moonlight has shone Centuries long on his goat-horns—old Pan of the shepherds! Brown are his tatters, his tan Roughened from tillage and toil, Pagan and homely, but Pan— Pan of the sap and the soil! Find him, in fact, in the Park when the first crocus cowers; Cockney is he when it suits him, I know that he knocks his Crook at my window at times o'er sixpenn' orth of flowers, Gives me his blessing anew with my fresh window-boxes! Piping the leaf on the larch, Piping the nymphs (in the Row), Piping a magic of March, Just as he did long ago! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE DEAD PAN by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS HYMN OF PAN by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY PAN'S PIPING by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE IDYLL 3. THE TEACHER TAUGHT by BION THE DAIRYMAIDS TO PAN by GORDON BOTTOMLEY PAN IN PANDEMONIUM by BERTON BRALEY PAN AND LUNA by ROBERT BROWNING A BLACK-LETTER STORY-BOOK by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS |
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