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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GOLDEN HOUR, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A beckoning spirit of gladness seemed afloat
Last Line: And fall'n my phantom summer?
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Seasons
First Line: A beckoning spirit of gladness seemed afloat
Last Line: And fall'n my phantom summer?
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Seasons
A BECKONING spirit of gladness seemed afloat,
That lightly danced in laughing air before us:
The earth was all in tune, and you a note
Of Nature's happy chorus.
'Twas like a vernal morn, yet overhead
The leafless boughs across the lane were knitting:
The ghost of some forgotten Spring, we said,
O'er Winter's world comes flitting.
Or was it Spring herself, that, gone astray,
Across the unsentried frontier chose to tarry?
Or just a bold outrider of the May,
Or April-emissary?
The apparition faded on the air,
Capricious and incalculable comer. --
Wilt thou too pass, and leave my chill days bare,
And fall'n my phantom Summer?
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