Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Meadowsweet Comments

Rating: 5.0

Through grass, through amber'd cornfields, our slow Stream--
Fringed with its flags and reeds and rushes tall,
And Meadowsweet, the chosen of them all
By wandering children, yellow as the cream
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William Allingham
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Susan Williams 11 December 2015

This is so beautiful. He paints a pastoral scene and I can see that stream go roving over the countryside. Then he turns away from the sweetness of the countryside to the once upon a time heavy king. There is a master poet at the reins of this piece

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William Allingham

William Allingham

Donegal / Ireland
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