Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THOUGHTS CONNECTED WITH TREES (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: And ye are strong to shelter! All meek things
Last Line: Confessed a spirit's breath, and heard a ceaseless hymn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring; Trees


AND ye are strong to shelter! -- all meek things,
All that need home and covert, love your shade!
Birds of shy song, and low-voiced quiet springs,
And nun-like violets, by the winds betrayed.
Childhood beneath your fresh green tents hath played
With his first primrose-wreath: there love hath sought
A veiling gloom for his unuttered thought;
And silent grief, of day's keen glare afraid,
A refuge for her tears; and ofttimes there
Hath lone devotion found a place of prayer,
A native temple, solemn, hushed, and dim,
For wheresoe'er your murmuring tremours thrill
The woody twilight, there man's heart hath still
Confessed a spirit's breath, and heard a ceaseless hymn.





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