[EBI]The solitary reaper
Akshit Thakur
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings?--
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;--
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
-William Wordsworth
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r u in grade 9 ?
nice guess... but it is not in our syllabus... I just found it out by:-
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/daffodils-2002108/1/20#comments of AShwamedh
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wow u actually read my comment! : D
btw its easy to be all alone in the SCottish Highlands... beautiful region ... really haunting and wonderful.
If you are a serious reader... the ultimate series of deep, dark epic poems belongs to John Milton... Paradise Lost ... but its too long, dark and serious and difficult to comprehend - unless of course you are really into it!
Alternatively, for some nice surrealism, try this : Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came"
Apparently the title came to the poet in a dream! This theme has been made amazingly surreal and truly epic by Stephen King in his "Dark Tower" series of books (7 in total) who have a gunslinger (cowboy) named Roland as his hero (while Browning had Roland - the knight as his protagonist)
Warning though - only go this way if you are really intereste din English (and the surreal of course!)
yes, i was goin thru my NP articles n saw your comment.. i thought u would have forgotten.. Have you read.. "Nature" by Wordsworth
You guys should read Daffodils by Wordsworth
Try Keats. Or anything by Byron - Darkness, or an Irish Airman Foresees His Death.
xordin.. I have published Daffodils before.. in my newspaper
i think i remember it was in my grade 9 in cbse....reminds me of my school....nice read...thanks
welcome
Ahh old memories refreshed... Nice article