Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

ENVOY (3) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: LONG - LONG IS TIME, THOUGH BOOKS BE BRIEF
Last Line: NOD'S DARK-EYED, BEAUTEOUS WATER-MIDDEN!
Long -- long is Time, though books be brief;
Adventures strange -- ay, past belief --
Await the Reader's drowsy eye;
But, wearied out, he'd lay them by.

But, if so be, he'd some day hear
All that befell these brothers dear
In Tishnar's lovely Valleys -- well,
Poor pen, thou must that story tell!

But farewell, now, you Mulgars three!
Farewell, your faithful company!
Farewell, the heart that loved unbidden --
Nod's dark-eyed, beauteous Water-midden!



Home: PoetryExplorer.net