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Beowulf

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Poem or Poetry
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Author
    Wilbur, Richard
  • Contained in
    The Poems of Richard Wilbur, by Richard Wilbur
    Location Details
    Pages 148-49
    City
    San Diego
    Publisher
    Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
    Date
    1963
  • Relationships
    (Upstream) Reproduces in new context -> Beowulf, Wilbur, Richard (1950)
  • Identifying Numbers
    [Fry 2212].
     
    Descriptive Notes

    Book is x + 229 pp. Reproduces poem as published in Ceremony and Other Poems (1950). A 42-line poem in seven 6-line stanzas. Begins:

    The land was overmuch like scenery,
    The flowers attentive, the grass too garrulous green;
    In the lake like a dropped kerchief could be seen
    The lark's reflection after the lark was gone;
    The Roman road lay paved too shiningly
    For a road so many men had traveled on. (148)

    And ends:

    He died in his own country a kinless king,
    A name heavy with deeds, and mourned as one
    Will mourn for the frozen year when it is done.
    They buried him next the sea on a thrust of land:
    Twelve men rode round his barrow all in a ring,
    Singing of him what they could understand. (149)

     
    Authentication

    BAM (from reprint).

  • Last Updated
    03/29/2022