Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUGUST, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH



Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

AUGUST, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far off among the fields and meadow rills
Last Line: In the hot sunshine snaps his castanets.
Subject(s): Nature; Summer


FAR Off among the fields and meadow rills
The August noon bends o'er a world of green.
In the blue sky the white clouds pause, and lean
To paint broad shadows on the wooded hills
And upland farms. A brooding silence fills
The languid hours. No living forms are seen
Save birds and insects. Here and there, between
The broad boughs and the grass, the locust trills
Unseen his long-drawn, slumberous monotone.
The sparrow and the lonely phœbe-bird,
Now near, now far, across the fields are heard;
And close beside me here that Spanish drone,
The dancing grasshopper, whom no trouble frets,
In the hot sunshine snaps his castanets.





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...



Home: PoetryExplorer.net