Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SWEET-BRIAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR


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THE SWEET-BRIAR, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet-briar flowering
Last Line: Held the trusting heart of a little child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Daisies; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


I.

THE Sweet-briar flowering,
With boughs embowering,
Beside the willow-tufted stream,
In its soft red bloom,
And its wild perfume,
Brings back the past like a sunny dream!

II.

Methinks, in childhood,
Beside the wildwood
I lie, and listen the blackbird's song,
'Mid the evening calm,
As the Sweet-briar's balm
On the gentle west wind breathes along—

III.

To speak of meadows,
And palm-tree shadows,
And bee-hive cones, and a thymy hill,
And greenwood mazes,
And greensward daisies,
And a foamy stream, and a clacking mill.

IV.

Still the heart rejoices
At the happy voices
Of children, singing amid their play;
While swallows twittering,
And waters glittering,
Make earth an Eden at close of day.

V.

In sequestered places,
Departed faces,
Return and smile as of yore they smiled;
When, with trifles blest,
Each buoyant breast
Held the trusting heart of a little child.





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