Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MIDSUMMER DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crown of the year, how bright thou shinest! Last Line: Crown of the year! When thou art gone. Subject(s): Summer | ||||||||
Crown of the Year, how bright thou shinest! How little, in thy pride, divinest Inevitable fall! albeit We who stand round about fore-see it. Shine on; shine bravely. There are near Other bright children of the Year, Almost as high, and much like thee In features and in festive glee: Some happy to call forth the mower, And hear his sharpen'd scythe sweep o'er Rank after rank: then others wait Before the grange's open gate, And watch the nodding wane, or watch The fretted domes beneath the thatch, Till young and old at once take wing And promise to return in spring. Yet I am sorry, I must own, Crown of the Year! when thou art gone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A FIESOLAN IDYL by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR |
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